Twitter cuts (#63)¶
Certain reactosphere tendencies could find a valuable corrective in this. (First tweet is throat clearing, second is context without a link.)
3/ "Europe wasn't recovering from the COLLAPSE of Rome. They were recovering FROM Rome."
— Liberty Farm (@LibertyFarmNH) May 6, 2016
4/ "Serfdom was a gigantic step forward over the slave-based economy of the empire. The Romans knew that the rotary motion of a mill… "
— Liberty Farm (@LibertyFarmNH) May 6, 2016
5/ "…could be converted to allow for not just the grinding of grain, but sawing wood and stone, draining swamps, turning lathes…"
— Liberty Farm (@LibertyFarmNH) May 6, 2016
6/ @LibertyFarmNH "grinding metal edges, fulling cloth, hammering metal and drawing wire, and making paper. But why would they? "
— Liberty Farm (@LibertyFarmNH) May 6, 2016
7/ @LibertyFarmNH "The slaves would be standing around whining about how there was nothing to do – danger! "
— Liberty Farm (@LibertyFarmNH) May 6, 2016
8/ @LibertyFarmNH "So instead, they built sports arenas and monuments to themselves."
— Liberty Farm (@LibertyFarmNH) May 6, 2016
9/ "Later, "historians" found something in the ruins that they fell in love with and named it, "The Glory of Rome"."
— Liberty Farm (@LibertyFarmNH) May 6, 2016
10/ "They were little better than gaping tourists. But they wrote the history books, so here we are."
– user "Lucius" on historum dot com— Liberty Farm (@LibertyFarmNH) May 6, 2016
XS take-away: Huge problem with the institution of slavery was the weakness of exit-options on the side of the slave-owners.