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Are You Not Entertained? The movie Gladiator II entertains hugely. However, it does not educate people about how vengeance came to be the ruling principle of civic and...
Are You Not Entertained? The movie Gladiator II entertains hugely. However, it does not educate people about how vengeance came to be the ruling principle of civic and international life in ancient Rome. That rogue philosophy resulted from the drying up of Rome's system of civics education and from the unregulated accumulation of money and power.
Yes, characters in the two Gladiator movies have a "dream of Rome" as it once was. But there is no hint of how or why democracy happens in the real world of history.
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