This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelor.

Tremannicus is here.

And before we go off to the theater and listen to a famous Stoic

is going to tell us all about how a rich man can be a slave to his jewels

where a poor man can be free to contemplate philosophy.

That's the lecture tonight.

Before we go there, we go to Marcus Aurelius, this is a second century AD which will be generally

understood to be positive, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, and then the exhaustible commonness. However, it occurred to me in reading through

this story one more time, Germanicus, that the 21st century in America is in a succession struggle.

Trump, Biden, Trump, Biden, Obama, Trump,

Trump, Biden, Clinton, Bush, Trump, Biden, Clinton, Obama.

It's the same small group of Torion guards all the time.

They not only get to be emperor,

they then get to choose the next emperor and then they

circle around and trade off again. And right now the blue team has an emperor they're not entirely happy with, however, the Red Team has a former

Emperor who no one's happy with.

It's a succession struggle.

How did the the how did our

inheritance in the second century resolve these things?

And if you say the Antonine Plague that's a trick question.

There's no trickery here. The succession issue that had so

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