sj_zero on Nostr: Given the "How often do men think of ancient Rome?" meme, some women ask, "Why not ...

Given the "How often do men think of ancient Rome?" meme, some women ask, "Why not ancient China?" but that's really making a lot of assumptions. Just as the collapse of ancient Rome is terribly important today, there are a lot of lessons from ancient China that we can learn from too.

The story of the Song dynasty losing half the country to invasions from the north while they do nothing about it except write poetry in the capital about how much they'd like to get their territory back is a story of decadence and hubris we definitely need to remember. The story of how Imperial China allowed itself to become arrogant and assume it knew everything about the world and even turned away modern firearms and other western inventions is something we must remember because our society today has similar hubris and arrogance.

There are lessons from all around the world I think men want to learn, and they are thankful that someone wrote them down so we could learn them. Rome was a more Western empire, in Europe, and Britain and America both borrowed heavily from them in many ways to build their empires, so it's of particular importance and interest, but not sole interest by any means.