joyless prudes who ran military taxation across the entire globe. Perhaps they ran from the excess of Rome, while emphasizing the exhortatian to power? Militar

joyless prudes who ran military taxation across the entire globe. Perhaps they ran from the excess of Rome, while emphasizing the exhortatian to power? Military and civil administration is best done without "joy" right, to maximize other qualities? A level deeper past this cynical snark - many civiliations have embraced "joy", arts, culture, outsiders, wisdom, mystical things.. all sorts of variations.. but somehow the public attention is called back to the centers of military power, and their "trouble" .. Let's call the Emporer without clothes.. the military and economic might of the Victorians were a marvel at the level of Rome itself, and, what cost? what human cost..