I just did. He was raised in the triumphant Roman army.Immanuel Can wrote: I'm still curious about whether we can call Caligula the product of "mascularchy."
I didn't say it was "culpable" and I haven't "blamed" it for anything.But where was this "culture" that is actually culpable?
You're the one keeps harping on blame:
Blaming never has changed a social order. Only bankruptcy does that.
Obviously, there was. The same one that produced Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Smith and David Berkible.But unless there was a "culture" of some kind around Bill Clinton,
It's not meant to be moral or to change anything. It's simply a description of prevailing social realities.I have to worry that the "culture of abuse" explanation is actually too morally weak to change anything.
The situation is far more likely to deteriorate under the present political trends than to improve.