Roman, remember by your strength to rule Earth’s peoples—for your arts are to be these: To pacify, to impose the rule of law, To spare the conquered, battle

Roman, remember by your strength to rule Earth’s peoples—for your arts are to be these: To pacify, to impose the rule of law, To spare the conquered, battle down the proud. (VI.1151–1154) [Virgil's Aeneid] --- We need more compassion in this world, not less; especially for the defeated. For Gebru, even for those at Google that have, in my view, erred; to do otherwise is to drown ourselves in misery; to race one another towards the bottom; to view the world merely as zero sum.