Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 05:00:05 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <20241014080601.00007478@gmail.com> <38fb5a91-5d00-be42-4bfe-2a05232a82c1@example.net> <82bcedf2-be4a-a2da-3f77-fbbed147ef30@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 07:00:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bebb5afd8d6b363c1d85744b8b6ba226"; logging-data="309306"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+jJ+/gt+p+/Norr+Po1kj5" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mb8vysCoOzss+X2veQLtGmfZ/zM= On 20 Oct 2024 01:36:32 GMT, rbowman wrote: > On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:50:10 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >>> Read Tacitus for example. >> >> Fictional/hypothetical society, or real society? > > Publius Cornelius Tacitus writing about the Germanic people on 'De > origine et situ Germanorum', aka 'Germania'. So he was the Margaret Mead of his day. How sweet. What, you thought the “Noble Savage” myth was some modern thing?