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It's amazing how historians (of all politics) see the past through their own political views. I would imagine if if you were to ask Bret what he thought the sol
by gadders 5y ago
It's amazing how historians (of all politics) see the past through their own political views. I would imagine if if you were to ask Bret what he thought the solution to US Immigration is today he would reply similarly to your first paragraph. Probably Andrew Roberts or Niall Ferguson would say the opposite.
I wonder if there are any historians that say "XXX worked then, but I recommend YYY now."
- SpicyLemonZest 5y agoBasically all historians say that, including Devereaux. He's not presenting late republican Rome as an ideal to aspire to: as he described in detail earlier in the series, they were a violent, militaristic society who succeeded through constant wars of conquest.
- brazzy 5y agoThe whole point of the entire series is to see the past on its own terms and give very detailed historical evidence why people who say the opposite don't know what they fuck they're talking about. Ferguson specifically is, to use the modern parlance, demolished. On the other hand, Bret also makes it clear that then is then and now is now, and you can not simply transfer social concepts or policies.