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Yes, one has to be astonishingly ignorant of history to think that cloistering a society’s leaders in an ivory tower will result in long term stability and pros
by jkhdigital 6y ago
Yes, one has to be astonishingly ignorant of history to think that cloistering a society’s leaders in an ivory tower will result in long term stability and prosperity.
- flycaliguy 6y agoThis ivory tower has a lot of well planned security features.
- riskable 6y agoAs long as they're not inconveniences that make people think, "why would I want to put up with that every day‽"
- arethuza 6y agoThe list of purpose built national capitals is actually pretty interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_purpose-built_national_capitals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_purpose-built_national... Constantinople lasted over 1100 years.... and Washington seems to be the capital of a reasonably prosperous and stable country?
- raverbashing 6y agoInteresting list Both the Canadian and American cases are not a relocation that made it too far from the original place
- cafard 6y agoByzantium was a city for centuries before Constantine was born, and a fine place to control the grain trade from the Black Sea.
- arethuza 6y agoThere was a city there but it wasn't that large and was dramatically redeveloped after it became the new capital: https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/making-constantinople/ https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/making-constantinople/
- danjac 6y agoNot to mention being closer to the Silk Road trade routes through Asia.
- fakedang 6y agoConstantinople was a major port way before Byzantine times. Calling it a purpose built capital is a joke. It was a purpose-assigned capital though.
- v77 6y agoOttawa, Canada wasn't purpose-built but was an insignificant city meant to be a neutral choice of capital between Anglo and Francophone Canada. This has also worked fine.