Chris Hedges: The Rule of Idiots
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Thomas Paine writes that a despotic government is a fungus that grows out of a corrupt civil society. This is what happened to past societies. It is what happened to us. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The last days of dying…
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Chris Hedges: The Rule of Idiots

Thomas Paine writes that a despotic government is a fungus that grows out of a corrupt civil society. This is what happened to past societies. It is what happened to us. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg

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Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries [Amazon, Publisher, Local Library] by Ramsay MacMullen This study by a Yale historian and classicist at the very end of the 20th century treats the late antique and early medieval periods, with an inquiry into the relationships between Christianity and […]

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