… Consider … My, my, my … how history has come full circle. Most of the “news” surrounding the Super Bowl has to do with gossip concerning all of the “patricians” who came in from their Villas in far flung corners of the Empire to spend a little time in the Urb and were in attendance. If you consider the price of a ticket (9,000 USD and up) or one of the suites (1.8 million USD) … well Carlin once again is proved correct … there’s a club and you and I are definitely not members.
It is also not a stretch to think of Las Vegas as a modern Forum Boarium (meat market). The only thing seemingly missing were the Psychopomps.
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Gone are the Christians and lions, substituted with football players thanking God for their success and Babylon entertainment.
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The new ‘Roman Elite’ have been around for quite some time now…they’re just more brazenly unaware than ever before…or perhaps the change is in our own awareness?
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