Nancy Pelosi, I had dreams she raped me, are we on air? Yes, yes, hello, are we on air? Brennan, are we on air? Yes, hello, we are on air now. Brennan, my audio gimp has been disciplined. So, it's interesting question, you know, Nancy Pelosi, can a woman rape a man? This is concern me for some time now, research question. I was in a bar with a drunk friend, a certain drunk of Nordoid varieties, he can get the most jolly drunks of all, is the Scandi, the Finoid type, very red face. I think, I see before is just complete personality change in Nordoids, from a depressive introvert to Leisure Suit Larry, man of a party after even two vodka. And he told me story that he was raped by woman because of his drunkenness. And he was hunted by older woman for weeks, apparently.

And finally, she saw her chance at a function they attend together with much drinking. So I ask him, is this even possible? Many people believe it's not possible. And he say, how you get raped by woman? He said she got my dick hard and she sat on it. So you see as this way He said to me is possible and if you say in response to this that will That kind of turgidity is in a man is sign of consent Then of course you can go many ways or is that line of reasoning? Because this may be said of a woman who is raped who is already that she respond physiologically in a way that indicates arousal in case she becomes a fountain is that consent in those cases can you say that is also consent which of course it might be I don't know but this way of thinking is not allowed today so then

you have to concede that men can be raped by a woman which I think happens a lot more than you think including a marital rape by fuck crazy wife and I I was once on group trip with a girl. She was part of the group on this hiking trip and she kissed me while I slept. And I woke up confused and I saw her crying, you see. They just, they can't help themselves. They want my seeds. My seed is holy to them. So Nancy Pelosi, you know, I'm having these kinds of nightmares and visions, just very powerful visions about her, because I wrote her quite a few letters over the last two weeks. You see, I was outraged. I wrote letters to Congress all day, 24-hour-a-day letter to Congress at how the transsexual community is taking advantage of this COVID crisis to say that their rights and privileges

are not respected in hospitals and in society, And so they are not getting enough attention, you see, given that the imperious tyrannical tranny is now fixture of the American 21st century power structure, transsexual executive privilege and so forth. So, but in response to this, I myself wanted to vouch for other sexual identities that are slighted because of this undue attention to just one. So I wrote outrage letters because what about other sexual minorities and because of the self-aggrandizement of the translords. So I wrote to Nancy Pelosi to ask her what about, for example, cuckold identity and so forth. Why aren't cuckold and cuckold rights respected by our society more and by our medical institutions especially in this time of crisis?

It is unacceptable that people don't realize the extent to which this crisis has hit cuckold communities the hardest. I mean, they suffer the most from this. I mean, various nations, like Belgium, the health minister there, the health minister of Belgium, who will just Google a Belgium health minister, and you will see this woman of power, a woman out of our best hopes for mankind in the 21st century. I mean, I totally completely respect her dignity, I respect her might, but she disallowed orgies during this time, but she doesn't realize that is a loophole under which, she doesn't realize the extent to which this hits a cuckold community and invalidates its modes of being. That it's an outrage, I think, and I think French Canada is doing the same, saying that

that three sums and such are not allowed and of course they are refusing to make exception you see for cuckold relationships and cuckold and adjacent identities are being trivialized and colonialized and their dignity is tarnished so I wrote some strongly awarded letters to Nancy Pelosi and Congress that is a slight of feminism. For example, now in hospitals, the bull should have visitation rights to the couple. These forms of life are promoted in Silicon Valley especially, by the way. And not enough television specials on how crisis has impacted this. Governor Cuomo must make immediate executive order, Governor Cuomo. But seriously, what a retard this Cuomo is. What a retard. This guy is criminal, what he has done, Governor Cuomo.

And to be serious now, Cuomo is equivalent of a bioterrorist with what he's done to New York, panicking people into lines where they get infected. And not just him, but if you look since this crisis started, what has been the message from media and from health authorities, constantly hospitals, hospital funding, ventilators. They just keep repeating this, especially about ventilators, and testing, testing, testing. They all repeat from beginning. Even the Silicon Valley guys, who otherwise did some good things in bringing attention to the Wuhan virus, when fewer were paying, you know, Frog Twitter knew how serious situation was from beginning you look at lucky timeline. He calls things early in January, but these other people are very wrong on this messaging

that I just told you, this propaganda about hospital and ventilator and testing, because they don't think about how the average person acts on that. They don't translate how that goes in mind of average person, people who do not watch the news and policy wonk all the time. And none of these people thought for a moment that image burned into mind of average casual news watcher now, is that there is a terrible plague and that your only way out of it is early testing and early internment in a hospital, right? Because they think if hospital, if they're being promoted so much, they must be our salvation. So they think your only hope is to be put through hospital where you can be put on a ventilator. Okay, they think otherwise you die. Unless you go through this ordeal,

through this painful, magical ordeal at the hands of priests and white robes in hospitals, they think you will surely die. And this actually is what is causing the disease to spread. This is the panic in the minds of many who have been led, even before all this episode, many were led into worshiping doctors, worshipping medical establishment. So that our modern world, even before I complain, has become society of cripplets begging for my medical care. I need my medicine. Where is doctor? I need my meds. I need my free meds. So one-sixth American economy is health sector. So tell me how that is something that can keep going in any way. The MPC guys had a name for this, the Spic-Nig Cycle. It is a joke. Some of you know it.

I won't get into that this time, but you know this panic people have been led to believe this when in fact in Italy, in Bergamo, the town that is one of the epicenters of this plague in Italy, in Lombardy region, the hospitals are the principal vectors of the disease. In China also, in Wuhan, when you saw early images of people mobbing the emergency rooms, where they didn't even have symptoms, right? Also you could tell it would be a disaster, this how it spread there. Many cases of hospital in China were 41% or half of the patients who were diagnosed, they actually got it in the hospital. It was trace they got it in hospital. So now you are seeing the same thing in New York when the opposite should be happening. People should have been kept away from the hospitals.

But now you have apparently seven hour lines at some of these places with people waiting to get tested. Of course, if you can stand seven hours in what I assume is cold weather, you should not have come in the first place. Basically, you should only go to hospital now if you're literally about to die. Because otherwise, they cannot help you. And even then, you know, the ventilator is very iffy. It work in Singapore apparently ventilator for some young people but otherwise many people on ventilators die anyway in Italy and the West and even if you go early right now, let's say you go early, the only purpose for that would be for them to give you hydroxychloroquine, this drug you all heard of which of course they will not give you this in the United States.

enough of it, and they're not giving it to people early like they should be. They're giving it to people on ventilators when it's too late, which of course, by the way, will make it look like this medication isn't working because you're supposed to give it to people early. So, you know, it's not magic. It's not magic drug. And America does not have enough of it yet. Pharmacists apparently are hoarding it. They are not giving it out anymore. So everything Everything is being done backward and is looking like a big disaster looming on New York City at least. For example, there was a reporter, a neurotic shtetl creature I saw about a week ago who put his narcissistic hypochondriac fugue state on Twitter for display.

He was telling people that he had no symptoms or very mild and that he was telling people How he went to five different emergency rooms and waited for hours at each until he finally got diagnosed positive at one of them. And of course they couldn't do anything for him. They told him to go home and quarantine. So you asked how many people did he spread it. This kind of, you multiply by millions that case and you have New York with these hysterical panicking whaps like Governor Cuomo, who are mobbing the hospital so they can do what? It's unclear what they think we'll get from hospital. But basically, the messaging on all this, complete disaster, the panic, is actually what is spreading this disease in New York as it did in North Italy and Wuhan.

And this might be one of the first eotrogenic plagues, that means spread by doctors. Because when you have 50% spread in hospitals and you factor in exponential rise, basically this would not have been spread without hospitals crowding people like this. And I think this proper end of this coddling medicalized work camp we live in, that people realize finally these are temples of death, not life. And I'm sorry if I offend my friends who work in health sector, many friends who do, They are good people, but they know that what I think about is that they know that you deserve, and I'm saying now to the doctor, the health workers, the nurses, you deserve better than how you are being treated now. Your talents should be put to higher task, but I will be right back.

Interesting the way this plague is spreading the patterns, the anomalies. The strangest example I saw recently was Switzerland, where you have in German cantons a much lower death rate than in Italian and French-speaking cantons, with the highest death rate in the Italian cantons. So this is just within one country. The difference is very strange. And in Italy itself, the very well-developed north, which is one of the wealthiest areas of the world, I said this before, for 2,000 years, that part of Italy is one of the wealthiest areas in Europe, and there hit the hardest, while the south of Italy, which in our time is very poor, and Naples in particular, which is a shithole and a place of filth, where

I'm told many friends say Naples, like Marseille, is one of these cities that just make your skin crawl, but they have a very low death rate and they are mostly fine. And I think in the very south of Italy, in province Basilicata, where Samuel Alito is from, they have no cases. But it's very strange why that should be so. And I don't know if ethnic explanation is possible, because New York seems to get hit very hard now. And of course, Italian immigrants to United States are from South Italy, not from North. But I do not know if it is the Italians getting mostly sick in New York City. It seems a lot of Hispanic, and of course old people, but a lot of Hispanic from what I hear from doctors there. But I hate talk of disease and such thing.

But I must say something else about the discussions I see going on about this plague and the shutdowns, it's upsetting me, okay? And this is iatrogenic plague spread by doctors, maybe not origin in doctors, but in hospitals. And I'm talking of course here aside from the fact that the virus itself is engineered, which it appears to be, but let's not get into that now. If it is engineered virus, you see how ingenious it is because it's precisely designed in its nature to destroy a country's health system because it makes people mob emergency rooms like this. And then this becomes the principle way the pathogen is spread. I would absolutely refuse a test, by the way, and I'm telling you, avoid hospitals and ERs. Just totally avoid them for now, if at all possible.

There are pharmacies that, by the way, you should always wear mask and protection when you go into a pharmacy anyway. But there are pharmacies that you can buy a tool you can use to measure oxygen. And you can get this and see if it really becomes bad enough. But you know, like I said, I would rather die in the street or in forest than in hospital. I would rather die in the forest. So I am looking to get to forest in any case. I mean, what reason is there now to be in a city anymore? For the near future, at least, cities will not recover for a while from this. The fear and hypochondria will remain, I think. But yes, I am trying to get to forest region and I have to come clean to you. These border closures and these quarantines have been terrible for me.

I'm telling you this so you know my bias, my own desires in this. I want freedom of motion. But I want to get back to you to the WAP como for a moment because this discussion of the The plague is upsetting me, this thing with Cuomo. The other disaster here is the damage Cuomo did to the cause for quarantines and for containment, which I do agree would be effective if done very strict and very short. So let's say one month total shutdown of the large cities at least and any other known hot spots, maybe depending on how bad it is. But you do not go out of your home, we'll deliver food for you. type of shutdown very strict even for one month but no one gets in or out of the major cities escape from new york type of thing shut it down then on may 1 you open everything up but you make

uh you give mask law so you know masks are very important they can even make the decorative mask why not if you think it helps but you see how much uh mask slow the spread of this in all the countries where they are widely used. So now I see a report that there is near a 100% compliance rate in Czech Republic with masks and they have no spread of this basically. And Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong especially are good examples of why this is not spread because of mask use. And so far at least not much spread in Japan either despite the fact that disease was introduced there very early. many trade ties with China direct from Wuhan to Japan, okay? Many products you think are made in China are actually assembled in Japan, the final

assembly of very advanced electronic products, they are actually done in Japan. So they seem okay for now despite that, I don't know, but look, I think such shutdown in the United States would be good, and especially so if it was done early. But you do this, and it's essential that you say May 1 or some other precise date soon, because you want people to know this is not open-ended, that it will be short, that it will end. It will assure people to know this. But instead of what happened, you look at the Maroon Cuomo. He said eight months, or floated even longer, and now Garcetti, the shoe salesman mayor of Los Angeles, he says 18 months now. So that's obviously insane. No one will accept that, and it scares people so much that it discredits entirely the idea of quarantine.

And also it tanks the economy with fear, it puts people in panic. They think, will this shut down last one year? the economy, so no one has done more damage to the quarantine cause than these hysterical female who are mayors and governors. And then there's the busy body population, the mass of people whose consciousness is nothing but media content, and I hear because of these people, the mass robots, I hear from Menaquinone and other friends that apparently it is seen as ignorant and low class to wear a mask in America in public now. People actually get shamed for it. So I have to tell you, America or the big cities might get hit very hard by this. In any case, we will know the true nature of what is going on in 10, 15 days at most.

But the criminal lie that a medical establishment spread on social media, that masks do not work, this is criminal lie. People will die or are already dying because of this lie. And now it will be much harder to convince people to move in other direction. It will take giant propaganda push by all American media and state basically to turn it around. They don't just magically only work for health workers. It is trivial to teach people how to use masks. But speaking of health workers, let me go against the other side of all I've been saying so far for a second, because on the other side of everything I've said so far, you have a bunch of hysterics, even among people on our side on Twitter, hysterical people who

are saying that you need to shut everything down, shut for a year, shut down all life for a year, and they say that we are not going to sacrifice lives for the economy. This is the line they keep repeating. And they're very self-righteous, you know, very self-righteous. They say that if you complain about quarantines, that you must only care for the GDP, that that is only explanation, and that the people who are skeptical of quarantines and of shutdowns, that they must be heartless conservative economy worshippers who are willing to sacrifice human lives to GDP. And I think they are given ammunition probably by people who are like this. So Ben Shapiro, Jesse Kelly, and other empty talking heads who say they would rather die than have a Great Depression and this.

And maybe some of the president's advisors who are telling him the American economy cannot withstand for example a three-week or a four-week quarantine. So they're given ammunition by such types, but it does not justify it. It does not justify their self-righteousness. And they say, oh, if you complain about quarantines, you're a neocon, you only care about GDP. Because then I want to ask such people who are demanding indefinite shutdowns for the sake of life that shouldn't... If human life is never worth risking for the economy, you will not mind maybe if they shut down garbage collection in your neighborhood. Yes? And what about health workers? Because you want them to keep working, yes? So now they pass this stimulus bill, relief bill, which I think should have been much bigger bill.

It's not big enough. But why should they get paid the same amount they always do when they risk their lives for you? Why shouldn't they just say they will go home? Maybe they will. I would, if I was them, I would say, oh, I can't come in anymore. I want to stay home and collect a neat check too. This isn't being done right. Maybe they should leave you, maybe, you know. So I find very unfair when you say that people who are nurses and doctors and they are under great stress and working, you know, they also have families. Some are young mothers or fathers. But you say they should work around the clock and while you pretend that you are traumatized by your quarantine and that you're doing it for the good of humanity.

But they are out working without extra pay, expose themselves to this disease. Why should not they go home? So you know, in Italy a lot of health workers are dying, young people who are health workers are dying in Italy because it appears this disease is much worse when you're exposed to huge viral load. That's explanation for now. But these young health workers are dying to take care of very old people. So tell me how that is fair. Or now in New York they will die to take care of obese pigs and nigs. So the people who scoff at the economy and such, they need to be a little less self-righteous. They did not think this through. Let them argue at the very least that there should also be enormously increased bonuses

for health workers, for policing garbage men, and all such people who actually keep society running during this time, they should get 10 times regular pay at least. I mean, for your own safety, or maybe they just decide to go home. But people who are of this mind, who want to shut everything down, you understand, there is not just ammonia cost to shutting down economy and having economic collapse. is health costs too, to tanking your economy, American economy still runs on nothing real. It is mostly simply the dollar and foreign credit buttressed by the American military. So you give away the game and you become Albania with 300 million people. I don't think people understand, even after Trump brought back some manufacturing, I don't

think people understand how little America actually produces in the way of real goods. And in case of economic collapse, your industries and factories actually do disappear because they get devalued and then they get sold for scrap metal. And if you have a situation like Russia in 1990s, you have millions of people who die premature deaths from economic privation. So don't be so self-righteous as those among you who say that you put human life above the economy and therefore you want to become Dr. Fauci's houseboy because you want to put quarantine, you want to be put under house arrest by Cuomo and Trudeau 2.0 or whoever it is that's running California, the erased male running California now and you're all hot and buzzer to become Newsom's houseboy, this what you want?

But forgive me, I cannot join you in this despair. And many of you are despair mongering. So what Trump would need to do is he'd have to become dictator, but he cannot do that. So short of that, I think he is doing plenty. But speaking of dictators and of great men, let me leave behind all this talk of plague. Spring is upon us, good weather and UV radiation, which is a salvation from this bat cave virus. UV radiations coming and great health will come on all of you. If you contemplate physique of Hermes and of Apollo and you consider also the various icons and images that the Japanese are obsessing on to keep disease away during this time, they are focusing on the image of a kind of a siren that emerged from ocean in 19th century

in Japan and averted the plague, a kind of siren with bird face. You must think of this image. And I believe that America will be saved, maybe as it always is, by fortunate miracle, in this case the son of Apollo, that will purify the world. I had a dream of Putin, of putler, Apollo sent me this dream, Putin who appeared to me in dream dressed in white robes, very strange, it was his head but he was wearing white toga or Greek robes, and in one dream he came with a kind of mustache, and in another he appeared to me in this garb, I say, but underneath on his skin he had tattoos like pre-Christian pagan Slavic tattoos but in Greek robes, and Nancy Pelosi very afraid of him, as this vision is a nightmare of all New World Order mummies, and the blessing of this.

Well, I just wanted you to share with me this very powerful image, and I wanted to tell you this image of great fortune for you. So, on the rest of show, I tell you something completely different. I tell you of strange times, of ancient Greek hero, general, assisted in his life always by a divine power, this Greek general, I will talk. I want to escape this threshold to instead one of high action. And I tell you in next segment, high action hero from ancient Greece, political restoration. It used to be seen as a greatest thing a statement could accomplish is to restore national health and greatness. To find a nation in distress, to find its cities decayed or depopulated, impoverished, and to restore it to a condition of health and prosperity.

And if there is anything I can tell you in these next segments is how different we are from antiquity. Because ancient Greek, Rome, they look up to statesmen like this, while we on the other hand are told to look up to very different kinds of political men. We are taught even to be suspicious and fearful of men who are like this. Therefore the suspicion of Putin, who did some of this for the Russians, and the suspicion of Trump who wants to do this for America knows that the way a nation or let's say even a civilization defines political greatness says a great deal. I think about whether it is completely, let's say, zombified or deluded, whether it's people are deluded to be self-destructive, suicidal, or whether on the other hand it is filled

with normal people who want health and prosperity. And it's not a surprise if you compare the way modern Western nations, the kinds of great leaders they look up to versus those who ancient Greeks and Romans look up to. It's not a surprise that we should come off very badly because populations infected with a mind virus that makes them seek the benefit of hostile others and not of their own. And I mean the modern political idols, they come off very badly, not just in the sense of let's say less impressive achievements, less great character and so forth, but also in that the leaders celebrated now for the most part are not leaders who improve the lives of normal citizens or who increased health and prosperity in their nations.

But rather, they are those who destroyed their nations in the name of ideals. That is who is respected today, to put it politely when you say ideal. But this, I think, is symptom of a sick and insane people when, for example, you celebrate Lincoln or Churchill. Lincoln tore his nation apart with a civil war that was unnecessary. So you can say now America was already two armed camps by the time Lincoln came to office and he's not responsible for that, but he could have averted it. He did nothing to stop the war. He rather goaded it on. And I think he left the country worse than when he found it, not just in the material destruction and the loss of lives and carnage, but also he left it politically worse.

The Civil War was a very traumatic experience from which Americans emerged with loss of many of their ancient liberties. And if you think about slavery, if that's what you're concerned about, Brazil emancipated slaves in 1889, I think, without a civil war. And Churchill is even worse in this way. He is worshipped now by conservatives, but he found a British empire in great distress And almost broke, and he broke it completely. He broke England's strength completely in a war that he could never win. But you see this idea now, that this is precisely the kind of leader that should be revered. A man who goes on a crusade against evil, who opposes evil ideologies or tyrants at all costs, and who leaves his people and nation worse off than before he came to power.

Because England was totally broken by the war. It lost its international standing. It lost its empire. Lost empire. And the initial aims for which it went to war were not achieved. In other words, Poland and East Europe ended up under tyranny anyway. And Germany was willing to give England peace terms that were very favorable. It was not going to be invaded by Germany. Tell me, if England had been occupied by Germany, how much worse would it be right now than it is? I mean, look at who is mayor of London. And now we all hope for Boris Johnson to save England. We will see. It's too late. It was already a terminal decline by Margaret Thatcher years. It should have never started World War II with Germany. And by the way, for those of you who think this was about saving the Jews, Churchill

did not go into war for that, and nor did the Allies. The Jews were killed anyway, and here is something for you to see, they would not have been killed with the English and the French consuls in Warsaw, and the seas open to Palestine. So actually, you have it backwards if that is your concern. No, I believe that Churchill, you know, that once the great moral fanatical delusion of our time passes, once this moral framework withers away, history will remember Churchill for what he was, which is intemperate demagogue and a drunk who led his nation and people to ruin in a vain desire to appear righteous and this kind of moral righteous and so on so forth, and to inscribe his name in chronicles of history.

In his case, it's not even, by the way, because of malice against the West, but because of stupidity. For those of you who think that Churchill is a great neocon or a liberal, I'm not sure you're aware that he wrote in 1920 or 21 that he thought Bolshevism was a Jewish movement. Or maybe you're not aware how after the war he was a stalwart in opposition to mass immigration to England from its colonies, how he was opposed to all non-white immigration. He said so. And I'm sorry then to inform you that he was a racist and anti-Semite, you know. But this is why I say he was a stupid man, or maybe it was alcoholism. Because although his intentions for England were maybe good, everything he did led to to the ruin and despoilation of his nation and his people.

And everything he did worked against his intentions. His intentions were good. For example, he was very anti-Soviet, I think. But you see this clearly. He thought how he could get the communist FDR to go to war against Stalin. It was just hopeless. This is a behavior of an intemperate drunk. These are not great leaders who sacrifice their nation and their people for what they think are moral ends. And I want to show you a different model from antiquity. A man, a great statesman general and a hero from middle of the 300s BC, his name is Timo Leon, Timo Leon of Corinth. It means something like honor lion, when translated into English. All the Greek names, of aristocratic Greek names at least, they have a meaning in English, you know. Pericles means something like super fame, you know.

So Timo Leon means something like honor lion, you know. Any Greek name with hippos, like hippias, or any H-I-P-P names, horsey names are very aristocratic Greek names. But this Timo Leon of Corinthians, of the 300s BC, he found Sicily a wasteland. The Greek cities in Sicily completely emptied out, almost, in chaos, the land devastated by wars and he restored it. And this is what I mean by restoration. He repopulated the cities. He expelled and defeated the barbarians. He reformed the cities to have good leadership and laws and he found it in distress and left it healthy. Prosperous and happy population. Very simple. That's what it means. And that is really the test of the man in politics, you know. Not whether you defeat evil or whether you cure some perceived moral injustice.

But do you leave the city as full and happy? That's something that's quite measurable. Are there healthy families and citizens? Are they still under threat of foreign domination? That is the test. And so I want to tell a story of Timo Leonov, Corinth, whose life is very strange. His whole life weared with great misfortune in the first half of his life, but with an amazing end that when you hear it, you know he must have had special divine force with him because the successes of his campaign in Sicily are almost unheard of in history. So I'm not presenting him to you as someone you should necessarily emulate in all ways because I don't know if you have divine assistance as he did. He was the instrument of some gods to save Sicily and Greece, I will tell you.

So just to tell you the beginning of his life, he was born in Illustria's family in Corinth. I'm not sure of the year, nobody knows, but it is around the end of the 5th century BC, so some say around 410 BC, others say later, I think it's maybe later, let's say around 400 BC he was born. And he died around, let's say, 336 BC. So you can think of this period as not very nice period in Greek history, because it's right around the end of the Peloponnesian War, but before Alexander. So it's the decay of classical Greece. It is a turbulent period of decline. But you can achieve the greatest glory even in period of decline, you see. And so he's born, let's say, at the end of Peloponnesian War in Corinth, which is a commercial

city, a merchant city run by an oligarchy, a city of luxury and seafaring. So of course it is a Greek city, classical Greek city, so that is relative, everything I've said, it's relatively commercial and luxurious, in other words, because it still Brazil has very strong military tradition, a military tradition city where the citizens are armed hoplites, heavy infantry that is, which takes much special training and power. That's what the gymnasiums were for, I keep telling you, so that you can build strong body to wear that kind of armor and be able to carry that kind of spear and so forth. So that Greece during this time after Peloponnesian war ends, you essentially had so many veterans who were no longer in this big war but who were well-trained, experienced, and they had

commanders and captains who were well-versed in military sciences, in tactics, in sieges and all kinds of like things, and night attacks. So that Greeks during this time, even commercial cities like Corinth, they exported in fact many mercenaries all over the ancient world, some fighting in Persian pay, others for the the Carthaginians, and of course many others, most of them fighting in other Greek states where opportunity presented itself. So this is a general condition of the time. Athens supposedly lost the war, but you know, actually Athens recovered very fast from Peloponnesian war loss, and even they defeated Sparta in some engagements very soon after. So Timo Leon is born during this time, and he apparently served with great bravery in

his youth in various wars, you know, Greek states always in war of various magnitudes against each other. And he served in a war with great bravery and saved his brother's life, I think more than once, in very hard-fought battles. At one point, he was the sole one defending his brother with a shield after his brother had fallen off-horse. His brother Timophanes was the commander of the cavalry. And Timoleon alone, he kept off many enemy fighters only by himself, was a great feat. But his brother, I mentioned, Timophanes, who was apparently unlike Timoleon in character. So Timoleone in character was a gentle, reserved, temperate kind of a melancholic type, a Nordic autist type. I'm sorry if I offend my mad friends.

But Timoleone seems to fit this type of quiet, reserved man, whereas his brother Timophanes was a hothead and power-hungry and war-loving, maybe also autist but aggressive autist. So that through this, and because of all these qualities, this brother Timophanes rose in influence in Corinth. And at one point he was given by the Corinthians through a vote. They gave him command of 400 mercenaries. And they did this because they were afraid their city might get betrayed by allies. So they gave this commander Timophanes 400 marks to defend the city. So to have as a standing force ever ready to watch the city. But instead of defending, he took it over. He put to death many of the leading citizens, many of the wealthy, and he was becoming tyrant.

So Timoleum tried to dissuade his brother from this with a friend and a relative. He took a relative and a friend of his who was a seer, a prophet, and they tried to convince this brother not to do this. But the confrontation in the marketplace became violent. The brother Timophanes being a violent character. So his brother ended up getting killed, not by Timolion himself, but by his associates. It's a very bad story in some way, you know, because he was left then in a very ambiguous position. On one hand, he had saved Corinth from tyranny, but on the other hand, he had killed his own brother. And Timoleone regretted, it seems, very much what he did. His mother said she would not see him anymore and so on. And Plutarch says that Timoleone entered a kind of depression.

He ended up haunting the most desolate regions of the Corinthian countryside, living in solitude over what he had done. And he stayed out of doing anything else for 20 years. He was basically depressed over what had happened for 20 years. So now it is 20 years later when this story of Timo Leon picks up again for real after this very unusual and unfortunate beginning to his life, a cursed and a tragic first half of his life, and a blessed and divine second half filled with fortune. And I will return to this after the break. Okay, so back to Caribbean rhythm, life of Timolion, man of power. So Timolion had become a hermit because despite the fact that he had put country before family, which was seen as noble, he was also a fratricide. And that was one of the most ignoble things.

So it's very ambiguous position. And he's basically a ghost now haunting the countryside of his native city, Corinth. But there arrived in Corinth a call for help. So I covered in previous show how the Greeks colonized Sicily, and the city of Syracuse, which was the biggest and wealthiest Greek city in Sicily, and actually in all of Greek colonies in Sicily or Italy, called Greater Greece, but this Syracuse sent out a call for help to Corinth, because Corinth was its mother city, mother city. So Syracuse was colonized by Corinthians, founded by Corinthians. And this call for help came basically because Syracuse, and actually all of Sicily, was a complete mess at this time. There had been tyrants in various Greek cities in Sicily fighting each other, wasting the

cities, massacring people, and local revolutions overthrowing one tyrant who was replaced by another. And in the constant massacres against their own citizens, the expulsions of citizens, the fact that, as I said in previous shows, some of them, they actually tried to mix foreigners into the cities to more easily control them in much the way as our tyrannical ruling class does to us now. Well, through all this, Sicily had become depopulated. Many Greeks left for other places. For example, many Syracusans left and they became exiles in other Greek cities in Asia Minor and other parts of the Mediterranean and so forth. So it had become a depopulated, broken place, Sicily. And to top it all off, the west of the island had been long controlled by the Carthaginians,

who now they see their chance to make a move on Greek territories. They had, by the way, long interfered, as you might expect, the Carthaginians had long interfered in these internecine Greek squabbles, playing off one tyrant against another, giving aid now to this one, now to that. But at this time, when Syracuse was divided between two tyrants, as I tell you in one moment, the Carthaginians landed a huge force on the island, 60,000 soldiers. So the Greeks of Sicily, and in particular of Syracuse, seeing themselves crushed on one side by rapacious tyrants, and on the other by the Carthaginian Semitic barbarian, they put out a call to Corinth to help them. So you know, the tyrant of Syracuse at this time, just to give you some interesting background,

he was basically, this tyrant of Syracuse was Dionysius. And this is the same tyrant Dionysius that Plato, the philosopher, went to visit and to court. But this very complicated story that I may cover on another show, the life of Dionysius the tyrant. And on this I tell you that this tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse, before the episode I'm telling you now, before this time I mean, he had been expelled and he returned after 10 years of being expelled from Syracuse, and when he returned, all of his ferocity, which was great to begin with, but he let it loose, he let loose all his ferocity in revenge on the people who had expelled him, who had betrayed him, so that he was so violent and murderous and bad this time when he returned, that the Syracusans, they went to another neighboring Greek city

called Leontini, and they asked the tyrant of that city, of Leontini, whose name was Hykettas. And this, by the way, Hykettas is really the great villain of this story. But they asked Hykettas for help against Dionysus. And Hykettas, look, I know these Gricholoid names are maybe complicated these Gricholoid days, but there is a good Sicilian mafia-type story here, a mafia mob hit. So Hicetas, the Greek tyrant of Leontini, came and he managed to take over most of Syracuse from Dionysus because Hicetas had Carthaginian help. So Dionysus, tyrant of Syracuse, was now reduced to holding the citadel and he was besieged. And this is basically condition of Syracuse when the call for help went out to Greece. Basically Syracuse is divided between these two tyrants in a civil war with one of them

Hyrkathos having Carthaginian help, Carthaginians sending him soldiers. So this seemed like a completely horrible situation and the Carthaginians were mighty, the Greek cities were divided and weak, Syracuse in civil war, and suddenly you are called for help, what you do, how can you even start? So the Corinthians gave it to Timo Leon. The Corinthians gave him this task, telling him that, well, if you do well at this, you will be remembered as a tyrant killer, but if you do bad, you will be remembered as a brother killer. So they gave him opportunity, you know, you get redemption or you get damnation. So what he has to lose, he agrees to the command, and he begins to outfit his ships and to collect soldiers and mercenaries for the expedition.

But the tyrant Hicetas in Syracuse, in Sicily, he hears about this plan. And I'm just telling you this so that you know what not to do, because Hicetas is good example of strong-headed, ham-handed idiot. She sends the Corinthians a letter saying, you know, I know you were called to help us, but I have it under control. Do not come. I have things under control. And also, by the way, the Carthaginians do not want you to come. And they have put out a big fleet at sea and they will make sure that you cannot cross to Sicily. And this is what not to do. This thing I'm telling you, this kind of thing. Because of course the predictable reaction, the Corinthians were outraged by this and they decided to supply the expedition even more than before.

They really made it a real adventure and expedition at this time, put money and troops into it. So I should tell you though, however, of divine signs, of the many divine omens that accompanied This crusade, the priestesses of Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, who was raped in Sicily, the priestesses of Persephone, the goddess to whom Sicily was dear. By the way, this is very powerful subject. I fear to mention it here. This spirit is of great power and appears in dreams. I warn you, spirit of Persephone, extremely powerful, but her priestesses said they received dreams that a Persephone and her mother were getting ready to go on a voyage and Then they hinted they were going to travel with Timo Leon

so on hearing this prophecy the Corinthians dedicated a sacred ship with purple sails and They named this trireme for the goddesses that will accompany Timo Leon on his journey And indeed, the goddesses and their allies gave powerful signs along the way. As the ships were approaching Italy, a fire came from the sky and produced a ball of light that traveled with the ships by their side and that fell right on the spot where the pilots were steering the ships toward where they were supposed to land in Italy. I believe this completely. And I myself have seen such things. I once saw a ball of green light when I was in the mountains and it rose up from the pines and it shot down into a valley, showing me a sign, I believe.

And even before this, when Timoleon went to Delphi to ask the Oracle for help, a ribbon of victory fell on his head there, another powerful sign. And I tell you this because you must understand this was a divine mission. The gods sailed together with Timoleon on his mission of restoration and to keep Sicily Greek. And later on, the Romans would take up the Greek war against the Carthaginians as well. So you see, this is meaning far beyond just some squabbles between one or two ancient cities or between mob bosses in Sicily. The gods accompanied him because they wanted to preserve the glory of Greece and a path also for Rome to greatness, they had a secret design. And if you are Christian, then you have to believe this in your own way because remember Dante puts Brutus in hell, why?

Because he murdered Caesar and Dante believed that Roman Empire was necessary divine mission to allow the teaching of Christ to spread on its roads. You see, it is not by accident that Christ is born in the time of Augustus. It is so done so that this faith can be propagated through the world, through Rome. So if you believe that, then you must believe this, what I told you now, in your own explanation. But the signs were there and they were witnessed by many, the flashes of fire from the sky. But so Timuleon gets to Italy, they did this by the way by hugging the coast, you look on the map, you see the ships exit the Isthmus of Corinth, they picked up allies on the way from the Leucadians, which were another Corinthian colony in the Ionian Sea, small island that

is considered by some people to be Ithaca of Odysseus, it's called Lefkada today, And the English actually had presence there not too long ago. They had a fort there, I believe, and they have presence the same way they did on Corfu, which was known ancient, well, as Corcura. Another Corinthian ally, they pick up ships on the way also. So he gets to Italy by hugging the coast. They cross over on sort of the heel of the boot of Italy, I think, and then hug the coastline until they get all the way down to the city of Regium, now called Reggio, Reggio Calabria, which is at the very tip of Italy's boot, right where you can cross into Sicily. And once they get there, they are blockaded, because a Carthaginian fleet twice their size

is guarding the harbor, and they cannot leave, they cannot cross over into Sicily. And the tyrant sends envoys to try to convince Timoleon and his small army, which after picking up allies swelled to let's say 1,000 or 1,200 soldiers. So the tyrant together with his Carthaginian allies tried to convince Timoleon to return to Greece. So what happens now is a Greek trick, very much like Trojan horse. So okay, listen to this trick, because Timoleon is said to be a very lucky man in his life, but I think he was consummate trickster, and he tried to hide that by saying, oh, I'm fortunate, I'm lucky. But you look at all of his adventures in Sicily, it's one trick after another. So now Timoleon says to Hecata and the Carthaginians, look, I will leave, but I demand that we make

our case before the people of Regium, and we let them decide whether your case wins or mine. They will vote, and if they want me to go back to Greece with the fleet, I will. So the citizens of Regium, which of course is Greek city, they make a show of having a big assembly and a big talk, you know. So everyone gathers in stadium for speeches, both by Timo León and also by Hiketas and And maybe the Carthaginians also spoke. And on Timolion's side, long speeches are made with no point, just long rambling speech so that during this time when the city is shut down, everybody's distracted in the stadium listening to the speech. The Greek ships, they sneak away. And in the middle of assembly, Timolion himself sneaks away last and his ship departs so that

then the Phoenicians are very upset, you see, by all this. They were tricked, the Greeks laughed at them, they managed to break the blockade and Plutarch says that the people of Regium were very amused to see the Carthaginians, of all people, to be so upset on account of treachery because they were supposed, of all people, to be masters of treachery and of trickery, the Phoenicians, you know, masters of lying. But they got punked, so tell this please to Nassim Taleb, tell this to Nicholas Nassim Taleb. At another point in the story, by the way, Plutarch has a Greek Merc refer to the Carthaginians and the Phoenicians as the basest and bloodiest of men. This is what the Greeks thought of the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, is this okay? Ask Nicholas Nassim Taleb.

So anyway, Timo Leon gets to Sicily and he gets us the tyrant in control of most of Syracuse, he is desperate. So look, I don't want to give you all the details of this history and the campaigns, but just to give you one idea of how it went, and it's all like the episode I just mentioned. So Timo Leon gets from one success to another through trickery, through surprise, and through good luck. All the while, he is totally outnumbered, but not like 2 to 1. He's outnumbered 5 to 1, 10 to 1, and so on by armies of, not of barbarians who don't know how to fight, but of Greeks who are very well trained and of Carthaginians who are actually very good soldiers, heavy armor, very well equipped. So in the very first battle, he's just landed. Timo Leon just landed in Sicily at Messina.

He only has about 1200 men, but Hiketas the tyrant has 5000 men, so he's very much outnumbered, but they both by chance end up heading toward this small town. And they get there at the same time in the evening after March, days long March, without realizing it, they get there at the same time. So Timoleo urges his advisors, he tells them do not camp, do not rest. He realizes the enemy is close by and will be surprised after a long March. He figures out that Hicetas is setting up camp for the evening, and he forces through his soldiers not to camp and to take tea or whatever. Like the English did at Gallipoli, they landed, and they decided to take tea and whatever, and they got crushed by the Ottomans. So Timoleo doesn't do that. He does the opposite.

So he makes his soldiers power through, and he surprises Hicetas' army that was just than setting up camp at night. He totally routes them and defeats them as they were setting up for the evening. So this is the first victory, and his future victories are very similar to this one. And, you know, when you win, you get more wins. That's why you should never lose hope, because you lose one, and it, I mean, you win one, and it brings encouragement to allies. You win one thing, and it brings you allies. So news of this victory spreads fast, in other Sicilian cities come to his aid, the tyrants of other cities say they don't like the Carthaginians, they come to his aid, and the Corinthians, the home city, they decide I think to send 2,000 well-armed men as reinforcements.

So I come back, I'm not going to cover every detail of the years-long campaign because this campaign started 344 BC and ended 337 BC or so, lasted about, let's say, seven years. But I'm just here to tell you how it ended and how he was assisted, I think, by very powerful spirits, by spirits in his victories. Be right back. Timolion fleet, as I say, set out for Sicily around 344 BC. And these are only a little bit before Alexander's conquests, but I think Timolion's achievements are not less than Alexander's. Of course, they are less in extent of land, and far fewer people know about them, and arguably in historical significance they are less, maybe. But you must consider that, on the other hand, Timolion faced much more powerful enemies,

I think, because the Greeks of Sicily were much better armed and trained than the Persians that Alexander faced, and the Carthaginians also, they were, you know, the very powerful military. And Timulon faced a really hopeless situation in beginning in Sicily, but he overcame it through wild enthusiasm for his own cause, through reckless abandon. If you think about it, he comes off in the Plutarch story, and by the way, Plutarch has Life of Timolion, which I'm basing most of my story here on, but there are other sources too. But in Plutarch's story and in other people's story, Timolion come off as a very reasonable, gentle, moderate guy, but if you think of the chance he took on this, it's a really reckless abandon.

He seems just to have been reserved and gentleman in public, but to do what he did, it's the actions of somebody with no fear of death, who didn't care, maybe, or with a wild belief in his own victory. And if you combine that with calmness and foresight, you win. But to go against armies many times your own size, and really very experienced and well-equipped armies, like I say, not just masses of slaves, but the Carthaginian soldiers were very well armed and very well trained with iron breastplates and bronze helmets and so forth, well maybe too heavy armor and heavy weapons, I tell you why in a moment, but I will not cover all details of campaign, but basically after the initial reverses, he gets us as a tyrant of Syracuse after he gets defeated by Timoleon, he gets hot mad.

So he actually gives up and he openly invites the Carthaginians into the city, no longer are hiding that they are his ally. Before this, he was sort of using them under the table. So now Plutarch says, the citizens, the Greeks of Sicily and of Syracuse, saw that the final barbarization of Sicily, which they had long feared, had finally arrived. Because in all the wars, the Greeks had never lost Syracuse to the Carthaginians. But now Hecatus invited them in, the great tyrant traitor. and he made the place a barbarian camp. So this was a big outrage to the Greeks. And I think, again, I mean, by the way, compare this to what Churchill did to make alliance with Stalin and FDR against Europe. But anyway, so this was a big outrage to the Greeks.

And I think this kind of villainy on the part of Heketas, you know, you are helped, Timoleon was helped by having such a stupid and vicious, ham-handed opponent. because at this point, some things, other things began to turn to Timo Leon's favor even more than before. The tyrant Dionysius, who had managed to hold on to the citadel of Syracuse, he decides to surrender it to Timo Leon. He says, you know, I'm not going to win here. I will lose either against the Corinthians or against the Carthaginians, so I will just give my citadel, at least I'm giving it to the Greeks. This is Dionysus' way of thinking, I'm guessing. And so he surrenders the citadel of Syracuse to Timoleone, who then sends secretly small

squadrons in fishing boats at night, and such secretive route to take over the citadel and to supply to around 400 men. And Dionysus escapes in a ship to Greece, where he lives as an exile in Corinth the rest of his life. And that is its own stories. Interesting what he did there. There are many amusing tales about that, apparently how he engaged in buffoonery. This is Dionysius the tyrant in exile. He whiled his time away on the street, arguing with merchants, getting in squabbles with prostitutes and so on, so that people would come from the city and actually from all of Greece to marvel at this formerly world-famous powerful tyrant who was just wasting his time whiling away, playing games with prostitutes.

And something he did so out of genuine dissoluteness, the same way that the—not tyrant, but you remember the exiled leader of Georgia, who was leader of Georgia in our own time during Bush years. gets exiled, essentially, and he lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which is now getting crushed by Chinese AIDS. But this guy, actually I forget his name, the Georgian leader, he lives in Brooklyn, Williamsburg, and he lives the hipster way of life, going to Blue Bottle Coffee and this. This is basically how Dionysus lived in Corinth, in exile. But other people suspect that he did this because he wanted to appear harmless to the Corinthians. They would not think he had any designs to take over the city or to be plotting and such. And this actually is a smart old tactic.

You see also this in a story of 47 Ronin from Japan, very famous story, where you have a samurai, their master is unjustly killed. So the samurai who are his retainers, they decide to avenge him, but they know they cannot do this right away. So they pretend to be dissolute drunkards for an entire year, spending their time in public drunkenness, going to brothel, whorehouse, acting like lost buffoons, depressed, which puts their master murderer at ease. He says, oh, these guys are loser drunk, so they get him to let his guard down and then A year later, I think, to the day of their master's murder, they are rallied and on a decided point, they take their revenge. They cut head of the aggressor and they bring said head to their master's grave, achieving revenge.

So you know this method of acting like a dissolute playboy to get people to get their guard down is a common ploy and is smart. But so Dionysus in any case settles to the life of a dissolute exile in Corinth and anyway back to main story, Timoleon, the adventurer, he takes over the citadel of Syracuse, which he then continues to supply from the sea with kind of small boats, small boats in rough seas from his base in another city, Katana, a Greek city to the north of Syracuse. And he can sneak in the small boats in between the larger vessels of the Phoenicians. They cannot keep blockade because there are stormy seas, and he can sneak in small boats. So this is the kind of trickery and luck he uses throughout.

But in any case, like I say, I do not want to just give you straight history and all the details on this show, but to tell you in broad outline what happens next. And what happens next is Timo Leon defeats the Carthaginians and then he defeats the Greek tyrants in Sicily. And he does so only in a few years. Entire campaign is over in seven years. That's real nation building, what he did there, not what America does 20 years and cannot do in Afghanistan. But the first thing he achieves is the final defeat of the Carthaginians. It's probably his greatest military feat because in the main battle he has, I think, about 4,000 or 5,000 soldiers only, or maybe 9,000 or 10,000, maybe. And the Carthaginians have 70,000. And the battle takes place in the west of Sicily in Carthaginian lands.

And people considered it just so crazy that he would take on a force so many times larger that actually a thousand or so mercenaries he had abandoned him on the way, they thought there's just no way could he win. And these mercs who abandoned him by the way were later punished by the gods for their treachery. They were massacred by the Brutians in Italy, you know, for their treachery. But Timoleone, he trusted completely in his ability, you know, like heroes in Homer, when When they thrust with the spear, Homer sometimes says, trusting in the strength of their hand, or they say a small prayer in trusting in their own power. You must learn to do this, and you can learn to ask Jesus for help in this. But his speed and his divine mission, you see, of Timoleon, he actually won this battle

where he was so much outnumbered. This really amazing thing, maybe eight or nine thousand versus seventy thousand. But he won it because he attacked the Carthaginians from a superior position while they were crossing a river. And he had the divine fortune of a hailstorm happening, a thunderstorm, flashes of light from the sky, fire from sky at his back and in the faces of the enemy. And the enemy, the Carthaginians, they were actually wearing much heavier armor in this case than the Greeks, iron breastplate, bronze helmet, heavy weapons, because in this battle a great number of Carthaginians fought themselves. Otherwise the Carthaginians, which were a merchant republic, they almost exclusively used mercenaries, Numidian and Iberian and other mercs, but in this battle they participated

themselves and they got just murdered in the river and the mud by the lighter armoured Greeks. They sank in the mud and this was Timoleo, excuse me, they tried to use 5G radio rays against me, but this was Timoleo's greatest military victory and it's almost miraculous. So it's hard to learn from this victory except maybe speed, resolute belief in your own win despite all odds, and surprise enemy in weak position with speed, which he did also, if you remember, in his first engagement, but divine force will accompany you on such boldness combined with mischief of trickery, I think. So after this battle, the Carthaginians gave some resistance, they won some other minor battles, not against Timoleone himself, but against some of his retainers in other parts

of Sicily, North Sicily, but ultimately they were defeated. So they essentially agreed to surrender Sicily or most of it back to the Greeks and to return to Africa. And they agreed not to interfere again, not to support this or that tyrant anymore. And then the next stage of Timolion campaign you can think of maybe as a mop-up operation where Timolion went around to one Greek city after another and deposed and killed their You know, big Greek cities at the time, Agrigentum or Akragas, which was a huge Greek city, commercial place, I think with 200,000 citizens, whereas today, Agrigentum is small town, I think has 40,000 inhabitants. It was a much bigger place during Greek times, 200,000, but other Greek cities too, Jela,

Deontini, many others, including this also included the defeat of Hicetas himself in North Sicily, the great villain, and his execution. He was killed along, you can think of this as a mop-up operation by Timoleone, or since this is happening after all in Sicily, you can think of as Godfather style simultaneous execution of his enemies, like at the end of Godfather movie. This is exactly what happened, where he basically extirpated all the mob bosses and tyrants of Sicily. And many died horrible deaths, by the way, tortured in public and had their entire families killed. But you know, this is a risk you take as a tyrant. But Timoleone, though he could have become himself the same king or tyrant, he chose not to.

He chose instead to repopulate Sicily with Greek colonists, the real nation building, a process he had begun already after his first successes and before the final confrontation with the Carthaginians. But this process of national revival and recolonization that began in earnest now with exiles returning and other Greeks from across Greek world moving to Sicily, making it great again. And it shows you, you know, nothing is over until it's over in politics, decolonization can happen and recolonization can happen. But someone like Timoleon, a man is like this, you get once every thousand years or two thousand years, who managed to bring a territory back to prosperity and asked nothing for it other than the joy of admiring his own work. Maybe George Washington is like this.

In other words, to put in words of Plutarch, this I'm quoting Plutarch now, he did not return to Corinth nor did he take part in the disturbances of Greece or expose himself to the jealousy of his fellow citizens, the rock on which generals in their insatiable greed for honors and power make shipwreck. So he was not beset by jealousy of others because he did not seek more, you know. that he remained in Sicily enjoying the blessings of his own creation, the greatest of which was the sight of so many cities and myriads of people whose happiness was due to him." And this very interesting that both Plutarch and Greeks in general, his fame spread all over Greek world of course, but both Plutarch and other Greeks, they admired the seeming ease with which Timoleon achieved all of this.

admirable and genius when you make it look easier, not when there is much struggle and labor involved, but when a man is blessed by the gods as he was moving from one beautifully executed trickery to the next, from one wild and improbable victory in battle to the next, all achieved seemingly without effort and with divine wind at his back. This is better than striving, and he is said to have performed the greatest and most glorious deans of any Greek of his time, this was before Alexander, but this is true. Through the remainder of his life he was treated essentially as the father of the city in Syracuse and actually all of Greek Sicily, all the cities there looked up to him as a great prophet and advisor and he lived actually a private life mostly on his estates, but he was looked

up to as sort of the father of all of Greek Sicily. And at his funeral, a very lavish funeral given by the people of Syracuse, the following declaration was read regarding his achievement, and I quote now, By the people of Syracuse, Timoleon, son of Timodemus from Corinth, is here buried at public cost of 200 minai, and is honored for all time with annual contests, musical, equestrian and gymnastic, because he overthrew the tyrants, subdued the barbarians, re-peopled the largest of the devastated cities, and then restored their laws to the Greeks of Sicily. End epitaph. Tell me then, if you can think of politicians or generals who have achieved something similar in our time, and there may be some not exactly in our time, but maybe in the colonies and

in an era of colonization and exploration, but they are not the crazy drunks we are told to admire today. And this is meaning of political restoration. Putin sort of tries to achieve this. But just now, what I read to you in that funeral dedication, and it should be the great aim of every statement, to preserve prosperity, and I mean concrete prosperity of that kind, or to restore it when they find privation and wasteland. To replace that with prosperity and happiness and to restore their own people to power and freedom. And you see at least here that the ancient desire as opposed to our own is very clear in this example. And Plutarch ends the story with this. He says that the Syracusans devoted a gymnasium for their young men and they called it the Timoleum Teum.

And I think this should be your great aim as a politician also, if you become one. But translated into modern nation-state, this is not just some gym building named after you. Literally, that would be the case. But on scale, it would be an entire national fitness program for the cadres of citizen-class men that you leave behind to rule, named after you, this fitness program. a fitness program named after you for the citizen warrior class. This should be the aim, if you can arrive to that. BAP out.