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@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-01-11 19:02:22
I’m reading Civilization Before Greece and Rome, by H.W.F. Saggs. The old saw about how if history doesn’t repeat itself, it certainly rhymes, comes out quite clearly. Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and hosts of other kingdoms and tribes, were pulling all the same gags 3 and 4 and 5 thousand years ago that Putin and Trump and the rest are doing now, especially the bits about how god’s on their side. Plus ça change, plus c’est le même chose. It’d be funny, if it wasn’t depressing…