Seth Gruber

He debauched and had intercourse with each of his sisters.

He preyed on relatives and allies alike.

And once people participated in his sexual perversion, Caligula owned them.

He used their shame as leverage.

Their secrets began became his chains over them.

This is libido dominandi in action.

This is like if we if we see this as a church in America, Ali, this will change everything.

Promote vice to create addiction and then exploit addiction to secure domination.

And that strategy proved effective.

He neutralized the Roman Senate, not with military might, but with seduction, shame and blackmail.

And the rulers who followed him, Claudius, Nero, Domitian, all adopted variations of the same playbook.

And that was a playbook closely followed by the revolutionaries across history to this day, Ali, from the Caesars of Rome to the revolutionaries of France to the Russian Bolsheviks.

And yes, even to eugenicists like Margaret Sanger.

Libido dominandi is powerful in the short term, but it has a limited lifespan.

This is the here's the hope.

It's a house of cards that always eventually collapses under the weight of its own absurdity.

And this is the same playbook you see with Balak.

Do you remember the king of Moab in Numbers 22?

He sees the vast host of Israel right approaching in the aftermath of the exodus.

Military resistance wasn't going to work.