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Why do cacs glorify Alexander the Great? He was a monster in real life
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@adexkola who was more of a military genius between Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte?
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Everyone puts on this front like they expect people to be good.
You yourself wouldn't be considered good. Cameras following you every second. You think your life would be considered that of a good person?
Your heroes. They aren't polite passive people. They are aggressive people who aren't afraid to fight.
White people glorify Alexander the Great cause he embodies their spirit. Warfare. Imperialism.
They aren't looking for a well adjusted role model. They are looking up to the most brutal figures of all time.
And so do we all.
Everyone puts on this front like they expect people to be good.
You yourself wouldn't be considered good. Cameras following you every second. You think your life would be considered that of a good person?
Your heroes. They aren't polite passive people. They are aggressive people who aren't afraid to fight.
White people glorify Alexander the Great cause he embodies their spirit. Warfare. Imperialism.
They aren't looking for a well adjusted role model. They are looking up to the most brutal figures of all time.
And so do we all.
What about people who look up to Jesus Christ?
Also you said we are all looking up to the most brutal figures of time?
Chrishaune
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Alexander was trying to rebuild the tower of babel before he died. Defying God, embracing the Babylonian lifestyle. Those ancient Greeks were devilish.
Was Julius Caesar and Augustus also trying to rebuild the tower of babel?
Majority of cacs are monsters due to their instincts and they have someone to relate to :kanyeshrug:Homie was out there murdering women and children by the thousandsall because they committed the great sin of not bowing down to him and his army. I understand the men dying but, they killed women and children too. They didn't put that part in the movie
Had his cac friends raping women and little girls but, it's all good because he spread Greek/Western culture throughout the world and civilized the "barbarians"
In our world it's more fictional characters than historical figures..
The best Batman movie of all time. It stars the Joker. No one loves the movie for Batman.
Chrishaune
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I never heard they were, but Alexander moved to Babylon. He cleared the site of the old tower so it could be rebuilt.
The Pope visited Iraq, which was part of Babylon, not too long ago.
Duke Wy Lin
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Ancient Greek culture is definitely not "western" culture. The idea of a "Western culture" is a relatively recent innovation. Even European-ness is a recent idea. Historically, Greek culture was far closer to other Mediterranean cultures.
I'm working through Bosworth's Historical Commentary on Arrian at the moment; I needed it for my research and my university library had a copy. It's very good. Not of the same order as F.W. Walbank's Historical Commentary on Polybius, of course. But part of the reason for that is surely that as far as primary sources go, Arrian is no Polybius. Even the best chef in the world would struggle to make a great meal with inferior ingredients to start with.
In any case, it is a top book. I can say Bosworth certainly deserves his reputation as the best historian of Alexander there has ever been. It was well worth the 400km round trip it took to drive to uni and back (I don't live in the same city as the uni) to get the book.
Although to get something out of a book such as this, which is a historical commentary on a primary source, you generally need to be a professional historian yourself. It would be like reading a veteran artist's interpretation of some older, famous painting which he didn't himself paint but reacted to. Nonetheless, here's a sample:
With white culture, conquering as many people as you can makes you great. Not inspiring people to do good, or bringing peace, or fighting injustice, but dominating others. It's why white people glorify Shaka Zulu more than they glorify Nelson Mandela.
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IT'S THE SAME THROUGHOUT MOST CULTURES. LOOK AT HOW WE GLORIFY GANG CULTURE.