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by 082349872349872
1250 days ago
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normal culture rot happening to any empire? Greens vs. Blues (byzantine), Guelph vs Ghibelline (HRE), etc.? What factions had the pre-Suez brits? [Edit: Joseph de Maistre has a most excellent rant about how the rot sets in first in the Universities, and then spreads to morals and national spirit and institutions — only he is writing in the early XIX about the doom which awaits Europe, what with these newfangled Republics and all... Essai sur le Principe Générateur des Constitutions Politiques, ca. 1814 cf https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57137914/f72.item.r=u... et seq] |
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