I bought Femi Otedola's book, How to Become a Billionaire.
The moment I read the first sentence of Chapter 1 and realized he started his life in London, I just closed the book.
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The emperor who read books at the Colosseum while everyone screamed around him. The crowd hated him for it.
Marcus Aurelius thought the games were barbaric. A distraction from a crumbling empire. So he tried to cut them back and fix real problems instead.
The people called him stingy. Un-Roman. A philosopher who didn't deserve the throne.
Then his son Commodus took over. He lived for the games. The crowds loved him.
And that tells you everything about power, about people, and about why nothing ever really changes.
We will trade almost anything, time, reason, stability, just to feel something.
The Roman system wasn't built on politics or policy. It was built on something far more fundamental. We respond more to drama than to truth.
That was true in 180 AD. Pull up your feed right now and tell me it isn't still true.
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A soprano was singing her 4th encore, "Sempre libera" an opera number that has a tenor part, a young opera student spontaneously joins her in song when he noticed there wasn't anyone else singing it