The Romulus and Remus story makes Rome a city founded on fratricidal violence.
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Founding violence
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "next is Rome is founded by twins, Romulus and Remus, and they will fight for the kingship of Rome. Okay? So can you read..."
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He describes the American Revolution as an earlier American civil war because loyalists within the colonies were terrorized by independence extremists.
Jiang says the founding violence of Israel created a political culture willing to use violence again in order to unify the nation, including the violence now being inflicted on Gaza.
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"next is Rome is founded by twins, Romulus and Remus, and they will fight for the kingship of Rome. Okay? So can you read..."
"Remus is said to have been the first to receive an omen. Six vultures appeared to him. The augury had just been announced to..."
"So Romulus and Remus are twins. Okay? They love each other. And, um, Rome was founded on violence. Okay? That's the very nature of..."
"So we have to remember that the founding of Israel is first and foremost, the founding of Israel was based on anti -Semitism and..."
"1776, War of Independence. And the reality is that, The reality is that, Americans believed this war was sacred. And it was a revolution..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
Jiang treats the next Israel-Iran war not as another regional flare-up but as the real conflict the earlier 12-day war only rehearsed.
A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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