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The roman analogy to 4chan is bathroom graffiti, not Tacitus. The modern analogy to Tacitus is not 4chan but, but today's establishment journalist or historian.
by amadeuspagel 5y ago
The roman analogy to 4chan is bathroom graffiti, not Tacitus. The modern analogy to Tacitus is not 4chan but, but today's establishment journalist or historian.
So this exhibition, this essay, and your comment are way more subversive then you suggest. To use bathroom graffiti as evidence against Tacitus is like using a 4chan post as evidence against something written by an establishment journalist or historian.
- rsynnott 5y ago> The modern analogy to Tacitus is not 4chan but, but today's establishment journalist or historian Eh. I wouldn't go that far; Tacitus, Dio et al were neither journalists nor historians in the modern sense. Their writings are very useful to modern historians (because it's not like there's that much available), but they were closer to a sort of historical gossip columnists than anything else, and there's a fair bit of scepticism about a lot of their wilder allegations.