Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rise of Rome - How Italy Was Conquered" video.

@musing1977 Speaking of the wiring, there was brief mention of how they sent their own priests out into the conquered cities. The religious aspect is never to be under-estimated. Very strong organizing/rallying principle.
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@Real_SkyRipper Yes. I think that sort of thing is coming. Audiences are actually smarter than the big film-makers give them credit for.
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@histguy101 Big Tech got everybody hooked on free content. Society/culture has to take that next step, and content creators have to find the right price point. If it's low enough, and you monetize millions of views, you're making out good. I think we're still reaching for that. I know I'm withholding most of my entertainment $$$ and paying for a select few news services, whose work I like. We'll see where the market eventually settles, but I think we're in the midst of a peaceful revolution taking place under the radar as a result of the Internet, no matter how much "curating" is taking place. Ideas spread across the planet like wildfire, and we all get a little bit smarter. Easy to miss the signal, because of all the noise, but people are gettin' scary-smart, and traditional institutions are looking more and more obsolete.
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Sadly, it takes a will to nationhood to prevail, else the Latin League, which had more of the right idea, would've won. But once of a size, the appetite to use that size to gobble one's neighbors is insatiable.
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