Cognitive Thrift 41 – Caligula
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/10/15
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Caligula, Hannibal?
Rick Rosner: Those guys. Their whole culture. I only read one book on this. They built a whole culture that was built on – war was not a sport, but they were highly invested in conquest. There whole society was built on conquest, and it was after a while it became.
To some extent, it was always fake conquest. Rome functioned via economic partnerships that sucked wealth out of the states that they had dominion over, and that brought wealth to Rome, and at the same time the benefits flowed out from Rome to the states that they owned.
The relationship between these places was a bit warlike, but it was not war all the time, even though they saw themselves as a conquering civilization.
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