On Augustus who got the game going
"Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance, they called civilization, when it was but a part of their servitude."
- from _Agricola_ by Tacitus
https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm
And of course -They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace. https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/tacitus_peace_a.html
Prince of Wales met Gibbon. His quip-"Scribble scribble scribble eh Mr. Gibbon."
Hierarchy must over use resources to exist.
"Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance, they called civilization, when it was but a part of their servitude."
- from _Agricola_ by Tacitus
https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm
And of course -They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace. https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/tacitus_peace_a.html
Prince of Wales met Gibbon. His quip-"Scribble scribble scribble eh Mr. Gibbon."
Hierarchy must over use resources to exist.