Sustrai Aditua
Irubo Kovu
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Posted - 2016.04.06 23:37:53 -
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the schooled and temperate sort of rant which bespeaks a fatal cluelessness. Methinks the overt references to Rome are a bit out of synch. Rather than Carthage, GSF seems to be looking at the Vandals at the front door, with Christendom knocking at the back. Those who lead through hubris historically fail to accurately apprise their situation even unto death.
The bravado and self-assured, institutional threats to enforce a mythical dominion are standard operating procedure the expectations edificial expressions of empire require. The landed gentry must be reassured without it seeming the authority in question feels the need to offer such reassurances. Two questions reveal themselves, therefore:
1.) Is the cat out of the bag?
2.) If so, are the targets too full of themselves to recognize this?
That these questions exist calls into doubt the resolve of the first actor, and the merit of the second. Neither side can be assured, of that we can be assured. The "Secret Weapon" (calling to mind last century's most prominent megalomaniac) this "Children of Summer" saving grace referred to (yet, another veiled reference to the same) of course is the windfall GSF expects when school lets out this summer and all their "other players" suddenly swarm to them bolstering their numbers, and thereby turning the tide. Mentioning these alone reveals the emperor truly feels naked. "You may be winning now, but wait till our n00b squad gets here!"
It's as though GSF is answering question 2 in a Freudian way. (Let slip the dogs of war!) Unfortunately for the attackers - the antagonists as it were, such enterprises have found themselves dashed upon rocks of their own devising and unable to stand the test of time as a singular enterprise. (This seems to be the foundation of GSF's hopes.) However, the protagonist's references to Rome again may be the boasts of the self-delusional. Rome fell as the result of the overall conditions created by its mere existence, not by the concerted efforts of a singular enterprise.
"Time will tell just who has fell and who's been left behind...." |