It's called intelligence no point trying to explain it to a daytime TV host who probably spends most of the day thinking about who's sleeping with who on strictly come dancing 😅
@@michaelharrison3602 If you think about it multiple times a day... for not just one day, but _every_ day... and then this continues to happen _every_ single day for month after month... that's not even being a geek, that's just flat-out an extreme obsession. I think David just accidentally exaggerated... but if what he said was supposed to be the truth, then it would be an _extreme_ obsession, *significantly* different from the example you gave. If he recently had a resurgence of interest in the subject, he might have meant "I've been thinking about a couple times a day for the past week". If he's talking about his life in general, he might have meant "I think about it a couple times every month". But having multiple thoughts about something, no matter how short-lived the individual thoughts, on a daily basis _without_ any specific reason for a resurgence of interest in the topic... well, it certainly seems odd enough for a host to comment. Did you also think of Jurassic Park today, btw? Before reading my comment of course, just on your own... and multiple times, too. Considering the fact that it's now a month ago you made your comment, if you're still thinking about the movie so often, then I suppose it really is an apt comparison after all.
Every time I go past a pothole i think of roman road layering techniques, and how the high concentration of lime would fix cracks in the roads. I ride my bike every day, i see potholes every day. Every day it astounds me how advanced they were so long agom
I mean.... the main road in my village is literally built on top of a former roman road used for nearly 2000 years.... So I generally think at least as often about the roman empire as I cycle on that road. Then there's a huge 19th century railway bridge with arches that looks damn close to ancient aqueducts, so there's another time. And that's just through my daily encounters.
especially if a regular walk takes you past a Roman Villa 😂 We also live near some very straight roads dating back to when they were here. God knows what they'd have made of the M25 😂😂😂
And it's a reminder that even the most advanced and complex societies can collapse, even while much of the populace is under the illusion that it'll remain there forever. This society is no less vulnerable, and possibly even more so with how overly complex and reliant on intricate global supply chains it is.
We’re a lot more aware of whats happening in other parts of the world now, a collapse like the roman empire would be something like Russia disintegrating. Its not like the entire world’s organisation would change, because it didn’t back in roman times either, civilisations like china or the mayans didn’t fall at the same time. And its unrealistic that they would in the modern era either because nations are independent of each other, if one fell, everyone else would just move on.
@@tobiasnaylor Well, look what Ukraine situation (not even falling) did to grain supply. Ukraine is a small and powerless country. It's Cameroon or Peru. Look what it did You have no idea what you're talking about
It didn't collapse. It lasted for many centuries and then rightly evolved into other systems of government. And we're still very much talking about it to this day. I hate this trope that it "collapsed" which makes it sound like it just disappeared one day for no reason.
I can certainly understand it regularly popping into the minds of anyone living in an area that was part of the Roman Empire. There’s still lots of evidence of it around. I don’t live in one of those areas but still internally reflect on just how long it took to figure out why their concrete is self-healing whenever I see a bit of crumbling modern concrete. (We literally only figured it out in 2014.)
I talk about Rome at least once a day with someone because there’s always something cool that they done to talk about PS me and most of my friends work in a museum
There's Roman/greek columns all over the UK. There's roman/greek shit all over the place. Pretty impossible to go a day without seeing something related to the roman empire or the greeks
This week, on Tuesday had someone quote Cicero at me. Wednesday, I used the Battle of Alesia as a reference when talking to someone else. Thursday, someone I was talking with kept using the expression “Crossing the Rubicon”. Technically all those things were actually from the Roman Republic… but more oddly they were all from a very narrow time frame in the Republic.
Thinking about politics? Roman Empire. Thinking about art? Roman Empire. Thinking about sexuality? Roman Empire Thinking about financial institutions? Roman Empire.
Thinking about slavery? Roman Empire. Thinking about Jesus? Roman Empire. Thinking about the Catholic Church? Roman Empire. Thinking about Life of Brian? Roman Empire. Thinking about Shakespeare’s plays? Roman Empire. Thinking about empire? Roman Empire.
Things that can lead to thinking about the Roman Empire - thinking about the etymology of basically any Latin word - thinking about the evolution of political systems - Thinking about the evolution of Christianity - Thinking about the evolution of the calendar &/or the origins of holidays - Thinking about the history of British settlements, particularly London - Thinking about King Arthur’s historicity The list goes on; my point is that a lot of things in our modern day culture, if you think about their origin or history, you end up thinking about the Roman Empire. And as someone who is consistently curious about how the world ended up where we are, I think about it a lot, lol.
im still haunted by the question, 'Whats a chameleon?' when i mentioned one in a conversation with people in their 20s. And no, they didnt devote all their time to antiquities instead of biology.
It really is an attempt to male shame (ignoring, or perhaps trying to force compliance from women who also think about Rome), and instead exposing the paucity of their own cognitive and reflective abilities.
Anti-intellectualism is real, but this is a stretch. You're still thinking about people and their petty issues when thinking about history. We're such a navel gazing species.
An example would be… like if I see anything about British history, like pre-1700s; I think about how the nations started and the wars fought etc. And then the killing of the celts comes to mind and then I go… damn… Rome really reached out and effected a lot of people… or like I’ll see a football stadium and be like “ha… modern day gladiators…” simple little thing pops in your head and gone just as fast.
I think about it a lot! 😂 but I think it’s cos I’m a teacher and a language student so so I’m often thinking oh is this a Roman word or a Greek word or talking about British culture or thinking about Spain (where I live) so it just naturally crosses my mind 🤣 .. quite a lot it be honest 🤣🤣🤣
In much of Europe you see remnants of Rome everywhere. And then if you go to church you hear about it there. Then there are all the words and languages derived from Latin. Then someone will randomly make a reference to gladiators or Spartacus or Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”
People that dont think about anything interesting get surprised when someone who does thinks about something that has had such a significant impact of the global culture. Yeah he isnt the problem here.
I'm a history nerd so my social media platforms all have history stuff on them so I think about history all the time cos every time I use my phone something or someone in history is in my feed.😊
I love how these pinheads are so shocked that someone thinks about a ton of different things over the course of a day. I suppose they don't think about ANYTHING a couple of times a say. SMH
To be fair, most of us, at least in Europe, probably see things that have their roots in the Roman Empire, more often than we think. We just don’t necessarily see the link.
He is an history buff of some sort. And the Roman culture is still everywere around us, if you know what it looks like. Every profesion has this stuff that the proffesional would notice every day. Also after working hours. Why is that weird?
Does she think that people set their alarms and put notes on their phone 11.24 Wednesday think about the Roman empire for 40 minutes.things just pop into your head.i just saw a mouse and wondered where he lives he may pop into my head tomorrow but I haven't set a time aside tomorrow to think about him 😂. Sometimes I think about what it would be like to have six fingers on each hand
A smart man says he thinks about a subject and the air heads can't believe it. Someone who isn't obsessed with their weight or their hair or being gluten free, who is this strange creature?
I’m a dude and WTF are you on about? Once a month, once a year, or if it comes up organically in conversation. Who honestly has the free time to mull over centuries old empires? On a more serious note, the aqueducts were amazing and I wish we still employed them.
They're also an irresistible lens to try on when parsing popular political topics, like immigration, religion, gay rights, birth control, parenting, schooling, military service, public spending, taxation. Because their world was totally separate but held close parallels to ours. It's natural. You're wondering how a particular policy might affect a big, complex civilisation? Roman Empire. Often not a very useful or relevant comparison, but still an irresistible one.
Davidd Mitchell is the type of guy that gets an engineering degree, contributes to science through his postgrad research, then goes on to earn $1 more than minimum wage for the rest of his life while the people around him are the types of people who would have yelled at him "nerd" and "loser" as he went through school, shunning him from parties, making him cry and want to end it, and physically torturing him through most of his childhood; forcing him into eternal abject loneliness - only to get into managerial positions in the exact same field after completing a six month part time diploma in their forties and get paid $400k per year while taking month long holidays twice a year and living in luxurious old villas on the verge of the CBD - all the while having no idea what David Mitchell does for work. I hate the world.
It's the basis of our entire culture in the West... And it spread the religion that Still dominates the world.... Why Don't YOU think about the Roman Empire more?
