Are you Russian?

[Gnerphk]

...now where'd I leave my fiddle?

When in Rome...

...you're not in Soviet Russia.

[Conrad_Jalowski]

You made a good reference to the Roman Emperor Nero.

All the agonies and miseries unleashed before him in the great fire of Rome reminded Nero of the destruction of Ilium/Troy which fell to the rampaging and brutal Mycenaeans. Nero portrayed himself as the Trojan Priam and from his battlements looked down upon the blazing fires, the sheer chaos, the mass of burnt and charred bodies and listened to the great shrieks of pain and the pitiful cries. Nero gazed at the terrible spectacle in which towering flames engulfed the city of Rome with the bodies of the dying writhing in pain as they roasted in this inferno...

The human appetite for large, violent, destructive, monstrous and gory spectacles is evident. For example, the fall of Ilium is found to be sublime as it is both attractive and repellent to the collective human imagination. It is attractive as the large scale of chaos, disorder and destruction in the city's collapse is found appealing to our baser desires and vulgar appetites which reveals our destructive urges while the exertion of the supremacy and dominance of one culture [The Mycenaeans] over a defeated and subjugated adversary [Ilium] illustrates the human urge for mastery and the desire for the imposition of one's own will over other individuals. The great scale of the carnage, terror and bloodshed attracts our primitive senses.

[powerwolf]

and back onto subject

[Dawnseeker]

In Soviet Russia, thread locks you.