So yesterday was the Ides of March, made notorious because the big JC ( no not that JC, the other big JC: Julius Caesar) was assassinated by the treacherous members of the senate and his dear friend Brutus on this day.
The reason I wanted to post about this because I have been thinking much about politics and the reasoning of the masses these days. With the campaigns for the presidency heating up, the rhetoric flying and the spin nauseating the people, politics has been much on my mind. The Greeks and Romans knew that democracy was key but they also knew that the mob often didn’t know what was good for them ( yes I know I sound like some premonition of a dictator).
So when I start to think of such serious stuff as politics my head turns naturally to arguably one of my favourite movies of all times, Mel Brooks’ History of the World Part I. And if you’ve never seen it, you’re welcome to watch it with me because I never get tired of it. But when it comes to politics one of my favourite scenes is in that movie when they take a sneak peek at the Roman senate. Now I don’t have video of it but I do have a great link to the audio. Turn it up and for sensitive ears there is one cuss-word.
