Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) on Nostr: I was starting from a position of "knowing" the truth and trying to justify it rather ...

I was starting from a position of "knowing" the truth and trying to justify it rather than discovering the truth.

The deeper I dug, the more uncomfortable the evidence became. Sumerian temple economies centralized grain surpluses, then extracted labor from dependent populations. Athens ran on slave-worked silver mines. Rome displaced small farmers, creating a landless class pacified with bread and circuses (the "lazy Romans demanding handouts" trope is grade-A bullshit). 3/8