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5 days agoThere is nothing to get. It is even more basic than philosophy 101, yet it thinks it is some sort of insightful writing. It is cringe and embarrassing, kinda like a 15yo who just read a reddit post on /r/philosophy and then got high and wrote a movie script.
I do think it is a “so bad, it is actually good” kind of movie. It is almost like a sarcastic movie, making fun of pretentious movies. Maybe this will become the narrative in the future, especially once Coppola is dead.
It will become a cult classic, but not for the reasons Coppola wants.
Because one of them happened “recently” and the other happened thousands of years ago. Also the romans were so good/good at converting people, that most of those nations consider themselves as the continuation of the roman empire.
People living under the Eastern Roman Empire(aka Byzantine Empire) and then under the Ottoman Empire, kept on living without any significant improvement to their lives. The ottomans just kept things going as they were, for the most part.
The ottomans converted people too, thats how there are millions of muslims/self-identifying turks in the area nowadays. 90% of them are native people who converted to muslim/turkish identity. The turks were originally steppe people, yet almost noone in Turkey has “asian eyes”.
The greeks did it too. Anatolia(Turkey) was full of “non greeks”, people like Hittites. They were converted to persians and then greeks and then roman, then greek and then turkish. I dont think there are many hittite independence supporters nowadays, it is a dead identity.
Greeks themselves abandoned the greek identity and became “christians” and “romans”, because greek started meaning “pagan” and they were not pagans. Eventually the greek identity rose into prominence again, especially as the Eastern Roman Empire started becoming more greek and less roman(or empire). Even nowadays, “romios”(roman) means greek, in modern greek. Though the latin romans are called “romaios”, which is different.
History is written and interpreted by the winners and current status quo. Most modern countries were defined by the rise of national identity a few centuries ago. So their current identity is defined by opposing whoever governed them at that time.