Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "Nero’s Few Good Deeds" video.

One of my major takeaways from the last few years in politics is that we can't fully trust anything we think we know about history. We've seen narratives distorted, buried, and created out of thin air right in front of our faces, in the modern era where all the world's information is available in your hand at a moment's notice. How the hell can we trust anything from ancient history books, that were written by a hand selected, fallible group of people? For all we know Nero was actually a pretty cool dude that just wanted to make Rome great again, and the elites who had gotten rich through corruption and manipulation hated him because he threatened their way of life, so they weaponized the media machine against him.
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Well they didn't have Tinder back then, you probably knew about 20 women around your age, and 10 of them were ugos, and 5 of them were your cousins.
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@trajanfidelis but it wouldn't be hard to find everything written that you didn't want to be heard, and bury it. How many historians could there have been back then? Especially when you hold all the cards. I get what you're saying, but it's also a lot harder for the powers that be to silence everyone now, since there are so many more voices. And don't underestimate people's gullibility, look at the way people are now. We haven't changed much. Now imagine that if there were only a handful of voices telling the Roman people how terrible Nero is, and how he's colluding with Russia. How many people would know any better? How would they know better?
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@Wary of Extremes dude they were all kiddy fiddlers. I don't think they had any moral qualms against cousin or sister fiddling.
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@Wary of Extremes well yea, you don't have to have an extensive knowledge in genetics to observe that the guy with cousin-parents has a chin that looks like a deformed banana and his eyes are 1 inch apart, and the guy whose parents aren't cousins looks pretty normal. Knowing something is bad for you doesn't stop people, it didn't stop them back then, and it doesn't stop us now.
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I knew an angry fat kid in school that was bullied all his life, he used to do some crazy shit like torture animals and set shit on fire, he eventually got expelled from HS for yanking a spike out of a nearby railroad and bringing it to school. Nothing happened, he claimed he just wanted to "scare people", but that dude was red flags galore. If he had just been handed the title of Emperor of the United States, we would all be screwed.
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@MH-53E yea but it's definitely a lot worse when it's an angry fat kid who used to set things on fire just for fun.
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@Zetact_ depending on what happens between now and then, it might be a "known fact" that Trump was a Russian asset that was planted as an illegitimate President and supported by tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists. And all of us who know that's all bullshit will be dead and gone within a few decades, and all of our kids who we told will be dead and gone a few decades after that, and within a few centuries the real truth will be dead and gone.
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