Rome

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Rome
“The ancient Romans were truly enlightened. They used to have communal public toilets. This is where a lot of…” (14 July 2020)
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Rome is GritCult's north star: not nostalgia but a manual. It is the eternal civilisation that showed what disciplined, trained men can build, and a death certificate every man should study so the West doesn't sign its own. Empires rise on discipline and die on comfort, and in his reading the West is deep in the dying.

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Every man, he says, has a moral imperative to study the decline and fall of Rome ^[1], because the decline of America mirrors it almost line for line: Rome killed its middle class and killed its currency, and both are happening to America now ^[2]. Towards the end, he writes, birth rates plummeted; the poor couldn't afford children and the rich saw them as a burden ^[3]. The parallel he draws is economic and demographic, not nostalgic.

But he is no doomer worshipping ruins. Rome is eternal: SEMPER IDEM, AERE PERENNIUS ^[4]. The Romans showed the world how effective trained professional soldiers are against common tribal folk, even against less disciplined armies ^[5]. They admired the Greeks but looked down on them as overly intellectual; the Romans were practical, engineers and builders ^[6]. Households were filled with busts of dead ancestors, a constant reminder of the fate that awaits and a memento to focus on legacy ^[7]. That, for GritCult, is how to live with death in the room.

He is not blind to the rot inside it either. Rome ran on slavery for a thousand years and produced no abolitionist movement; its philosophers found no language to oppose it ^[8]. Slaves killed the need for innovation, which in his account is why the industrial revolution never happened there. Comfort and cheap labour rot the engine. And, he adds, no one goes wrong by mistrusting anyone who doesn't admire the Roman Empire in some regard ^[9]. The message is to study it, train like them and not repeat the ending.

Recurring themes

• decline of Rome mirrors the West
• birth-rate collapse, currency debasement
• discipline and professional soldiery
• rome as eternal, memento mori, legacy
• slavery, no innovation, the rot inside

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 56 retweets:

Selected posts

The 120 most retweeted of 253 posts in the archive about Rome. Select a column heading to sort.

Date	Retweets	Likes	Post	Media	Source
14 July 2020	56	349	The ancient Romans were truly enlightened. They used to have communal public toilets. This is where a lot of business and gossip used to take place. Multi tasking. The modern day equivalent could be pooping while on a zoom call.		View
11 June 2021	48	174	The decline of America mirrors the decline of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire killed its middle class. The Roman Empire killed its currency. Both of these are happening to America rn. 4 pics expanding this		View
3 September 2021	26	77	The decline of America mirrors the decline of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire killed its middle class. The Roman Empire killed its currency. Both of these are happening to America rn. 4 pics expanding this		View
7 May 2023	22	487	i believe mark zuckerberg is on a redemption arc. hes been non stop training mma and bjj surfing and roaming the wild hes tryna revamp his business he founded as a teenager he also named all his kids after roman emperors dude also used to spend entire weekends playing civ		View
18 November 2022	16	139	Why the Roman Empire fell.		View
12 May 2026	14	143	Hannibal Barca was 9 years old when his father made him swear a blood oath. He held the boys hand over a sacrificial fire and made him promise: he would never be a friend of Rome. He meant it. By 26 Hannibal was commanding the entire Carthaginian army. Rome was the most…		View
30 December 2020	12	235	@0x49fa98 @lisatomic5 therapy is a modern invention. but rome? ROME IS ETERNAL. SEMPER IDEM, AERE PERENNIUS		View
10 December 2022	11	111	Towards the end of Ancient Rome. Birth rates plummeted. The poor couldn’t afford them as opportunities dwindled. The rich hated kids as they saw them as a burden. As Rome declined. Anal sex grew in popularity, it was seen as natural birth control.		View
13 June 2018	10	39	slaves reduced the need for innovation, which is why the industrial revolution didnt happen in ancient rome or greece		View
22 June 2018	10	37	"Oderint Dum Metuant" is associated with Caligula, First century Roman emperor whose name became synonymous with depravity, madness, cruelty, and tyranny. It translates "Let them hate so long as they fear."		View
5 August 2023	10	31	lead poisoning lead to the collapse of the romans too, they had lead pipes across the empire, and it lead to the population and empire slowly collapsing. kids were slowly getting dumber and unable to keep up with the maintenance of the empire over 500 years.		View
2 June 2025	9	398	The reason why everyone speaks english is because the British had access to Caffiene and Nicotine. If Rome had Marlboros, we'd be all be speaking latin.		View
23 July 2023	9	149	All top level remorseless guys end up looking like this. Idk why. Even in Ancient Rome. This is what they looked like. Just a regular guy who doesn’t blink as often and his arms don’t move as walks. Always looking at everything.		View
2 July 2022	9	81	Romans conquered the world drinking lead in their water. Stfu about seed oils bro		View
3 January 2021	9	48	Dead birds after fireworks in Rome. They died because of the loud noises. They were flying around to find a safe place until exhausted or shocked and had heart-attack.		View
9 June 2018	9	45	ancient rome households were filled with the busts and statues of their dead ancestors, a constant reminder of the fate that awaits them, and a memento for them to focus on their legacy. the reminders were meant to convey seriousness of mind (gravitas) & virtue (virtus)		View
2 May 2026	8	76	The British Empire was a greater civilisation than Rome. Rome ran on slavery for a thousand years and produced no abolitionist movement. Its philosophers found no language to oppose the institution. Its emperors never legislated against it. Even the famous slave revolts,…		View
4 April 2021	8	50	IN THE LAST DAYS OF ROME, THE OFFICERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, CAME FROM MIXED BLOOD AND WERE OFTEN FAT AND LACKED TRAINING ONCE YOU START LETTING STANDARDS SLIP... BE READY FOR CHAOS, AS FOR HUMANITY DESPAIR IS ALWAYS ONE MISSTEP AWAY		View
18 June 2018	8	11	more on the culture of romans. psychology of the romans can be inferred through this societal set up i think during the early Republican period you see the influence of the concepts of : -tribe -family -culture. (particularly the aristocratic republicans)		View
21 March 2019	7	46	Twitter is the new colosseum.		View
22 July 2018	7	41	would buddha have been enlightened if he did not have an enemy which he sought out against ? would jesus have apotheosised if he did not have enemies, the roman state would mohammed have hailed as a prophet if he did not have enemies the story narrative, heroes have enemies		View
28 May 2020	6	38	yes! humans have rituals like other animals have rituals. the Colosseum is one of the most important artefacts of human history. it is a temple of violence. the entire world is one big graveyard of human violence. rioting is inevitable		View
28 November 2025	5	141	the more i read of history, the more i am glad we live in a age where slavery has been outlawed and no longer accepted. it is one of the greatest evils that humanity has waged upon itself. truly horrifying, even if you read ancient roman which had laws, you are still taken aback		View
3 April 2024	5	136	Holy fuck. I’m so bullish on New York right now I am in the belly of the beast. The heart of the modern day Roman Empire The clashing of tech and finance. And all the demons that come with them However bullish you are on crypto. You are not being bullish enough. We are early		View
6 April 2021	5	55	THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE THOSE RACES WHO WERE SLAVES AT THE START OF THE EMPIRE, TOWARDS THE END WERE IN POWER.		View
5 June 2020	5	17	1/10 Plumbing, a bit weird, but a decent sewage system is the basis of any society. instead of destroying where we live, we should always seek to clean it and improve it. Minoans invented flush toilets. cite: greeks and romans had sewage systems too		View
4 September 2018	5	7	tiger vs lion solitary predator vs group hunter there is a right answer btw, this has been debated since ancient rome		View
14 August 2018	5	6	@gxdarz @MimeticValue @JordanTSack @dopaminendreams mandate of heaven seems like the meme of divine right of kings which emerged in europe in rome too, they used to deify nobles like caesar and augustus notice : laurel wreath on napoleons head to show the divinity and ascension to emporer (from greek gods)		View
12 February 2025	4	120	I feel like every man has a moral imperative to study the decline and fall of Rome.		View
13 September 2025	4	98	Roman society admired the greeks, but looked down on them because they were overly intellectual. Whereas the Romans were more interested in practical engineering. i see this contrast with China vs USA Technocrat engineers vs Geriatric political lawyers		View
13 January 2023	4	91	Stoics in Ancient Rome would purposely get bad haircuts and wear bad clothes. To test their resolve. To show they truly did not give a fuck about anything external to them.		View
10 May 2022	4	33	3 years from now when the next bull run is starting and a new fresh cadre of kids from schools are entering crypto are going to think they’re geniuses in a super cycle again. The new rome. The new rome. Everyone will cheer until it crashes again.		View
22 October 2023	4	32	this phenomena goes back to julius caesar of rome who once said it would be easier to find someone who would volunteer to be tortured than it would be to find someone who can be left alone with their thoughts		View
30 May 2020	4	25	riots that trend are a public spectacle like a Colosseum that everyone can live stream and spectate, in some streams you can even leave comments.		View
1 June 2020	4	19	Americans see the world different to every one else. no one else thinks like an american. sometimes it is not the roman the provides the best critique of rome. sometimes an outsider ought to put up a mirror to a society the history of america has been one of perpetual trauma		View
30 March 2025	3	99	You’ll never go wrong by mistrusting and being skeptical of everyone who doesn’t admire the Roman Empire in some regard.		View
1 November 2025	3	73	Thinking about Ancient Rome. (Pic taken by me)		View
7 August 2020	3	46	Time to put some miscellaneous knowledge to use. In order of preference. Roman legion signifier Scythian golden sun emporer armour Aztec jaguar warrior Persian immortal armour with mask		View
18 April 2023	3	45	not comprehensive but, alot of it goes into land/real estate, we have a cartel of house builders, bureaucracy is insane, very little innovation, less than 1% of pop own 50%+ of all land. we are in the last 500 years of rome. offshore arabs and russians buy houses slow collapse.		View
21 January 2021	3	41	the more complex projects i take on, the more i value people who can turn complexity into simplicity. rome after all was not built in a day.		View
27 November 2024	3	28	This 1872 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, called Pollice Verso, a turned thumb in english. Was so powerful and dramatic that it convinced Ridley Scott to make the first Gladiator film. "That image spoke to me of the Roman Empire in all its glory and wickedness. I knew right…		View
6 July 2021	3	26	The older I get. The more I agree with the Romans that trousers are for women and uncultured barbarians.		View
18 February 2019	3	25	"What lead pipes were to Rome. Plastics may be to us" Paraphrasing - @CrownedCaribou		View
6 February 2020	3	15	Sol Invictus ("Unconquered Sun") was the official sun god of the later Roman Empire and a patron of soldiers. The emperor later created a sun CULT		View
21 June 2018	3	12	currently reading turings paper on turing spots thoughts later with bottom up emergence, arboreal networks and entropy "mīlle viae dūcunt hominēs per saecula Rōmam" (“a thousand roads lead men forever to Rome”) in Liber Parabolarum, 591 (1175) "all roads lead to rome"		View
4 May 2018	3	10	Socially imposed monogamy was first established in ancient Greece and Rome, centuries before Christianity even existed. Greco-Roman laws prohibited any man from having more than one official wife at a time.		View
4 May 2018	3	8	The ancient Greco-Roman and medieval European leaders who embraced anti-polygyny laws were heavily invested in the business of war, and their own social status and indeed survival often depended on their ability to maintain large, well-funded armies.		View
18 June 2018	3	7	Romans were strong principles they felt were fundamental to life personal virtues: Dignitas Gravitas Pietas Veritas public virtues: Concordia Fides Virtus Many times Rome went to war for "honor" honor in general here (asian focus) - social capital :		View
21 August 2018	3	7	“The penalty for not participating in politics is to be governed by your inferiors” plato “man is a political animal” aristotle focus on self, but biologically bound to humanity see stoic cosmopolitanism see roman duty social capital = honest signal		View
18 June 2018	3	6	expanding on this drive to fulfil honor and noble acts such as losing the eagle, the Aquila, a military standard, representing rome of which they would engage in much more risky and dangerous tactics just to recover it explained above, i think its linked to social capital		View
14 August 2018	3	6	the romans showed the world, how effective trained and professional soldiers are compared with just common tribal folk, even against less disciplined armies the mercenary/careerist aspect is under appreciated careerist => created aristrocacy, which reinforced class		View
15 June 2019	3	5	But I’ve always felt people loved performative art. All life being a theatre. Twitter is just an extension Of the colosseum. Ancient Rome. The glorious monument in history was built by strong men who often over reacted. This is aesthetics. Beauty.		View
20 June 2018	3	4	one could argue the status quo in ancient rome benefitted those who stood against technological innovation slavers could buy influence, or would band together and rebel if theyre livlihood was threatened see warrent buffets bets => walmart => govt		View
16 September 2020	2	21	roman soldiers said they would die for caesar, but they all died for rome. trump, biden... doesnt matter, the empire lives on.		View
25 April 2021	2	18	the fall of rome was partnered with oikophobia (hatred of self) same could be said of much of the west, now a self hating civilisation.		View
27 December 2021	2	18	All of history is flat. Rome is as far to us as the American revolution		View
24 August 2018	2	16	"I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome." - Caesar, On passing through a village in the Alps relative wealth is more important relative tribe relative clout sometimes better to be a big fish in a small pond why sub-niches can have groupies		View
17 March 2020	2	16	now watching The ninth gate by roman polanski Very esoteric		View
1 July 2021	2	16	"WHAT LEAD PIPES WERE TO ROME. PLASTICS MAY BE TO US" PARAPHRASING - @CROWNEDCARIBOU		View
8 June 2021	2	15	TWITTER IS THE NEW COLOSSEUM.		View
10 June 2019	2	14	Mr. @GRITCULT : It’s not Roman of me if I do not brag about owning a noob professor in a twitter debate. This is my triumph. Events that transpired here forever etched into the blockchain. Anon in DMs : but mr @GRITCULT you are but a man. You are but a man. Memento homo		View
25 June 2019	2	14	Watching a lot of documentaries on Rome and on empire in general recently. Many lessons to be learnt from history. Power, politics, biology. fascinated Currently watching Shakespeares Caesar 1965 by the BBC Link for friends, Romans countrymen		View
23 August 2018	2	6	sent this via @JTRAPSBY remember : they killed jesus for spreading memes that were toxic to the roman empire too here is the link showing the anti religion memes : "Anti-biotic" resistance occurs when not totally suppressed		View
25 October 2018	2	4	@mainvolume @mindless1729 why are we entertained by the colosseum or modern day sports ? is that not mimicries of war ? evolution thrives on conflict, does not sound pleasant but its reality		View
25 June 2018	2	3	A 2016 study suggests that honor culture increases the risk of war. cite here also fits in with roman tendency to engage in war to defend allies "dignitas" sum of personal clout/influence male citizen acquired throughout his life.		View
4 July 2018	2	3	@haseebinc amazing how the ancient romans also discovered it millennia ago truly, we live in shadows of giants		View
17 January 2020	2	3	@loopuleasa we are now talking about the ethics of the roman farmer dictator, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. who was a nobleman "The Romans judged their political system by asking not whether it made sense but whether it worked."		View
18 June 2018	2	2	large familial tribes or the gens were all related by gene, common heritage, however how far they expanded and genetic distance gained (remember how long rome was around for, it was long) still practised and is a common feature in early civs, see: castes tribes clans		View
29 December 2025	1	283	@Clint_Davey1 Roman conquest of Britannia sometimes reads as fantasy horror		View
16 September 2023	1	45	How often do I think of the Roman Empire? Every fookin day		View
4 August 2018	1	28	skills I would like to increase proficiency in : cooking gardening farming inspiration : self sufficiency Roman dictator: Cincinnatus Can lead to CRISPR experiments in the long term dependents : financial emancipation		View
21 December 2020	1	26	we need to return to roman tradition		View
4 June 2021	1	20	instead of destroying where we live, we should always seek to clean it and improve it. Minoans invented flush toilets. cite: greeks and romans had sewage systems too PLUMBING ITSELF IS A 0 TO 1 TYPE INNOVATION		View
30 June 2022	1	19	Europe is to America what Greece was to rome.		View
15 February 2024	1	18	@sama Julius Caesar is in the senate of the Roman Empire. Brutus is about to draw out his knife. But Julius has a spider sense and senses danger. Then he turns around and says it’s clobbering time and he turns into the iron man and kills all the romans and the empire expands		View
1 October 2018	1	17	note to self : the barbarians, its foes, eventually beat rome from all angles		View
11 June 2021	1	17	The other thing that occurred within Roman walls was a disintegration of what it meant to be Roman. The Romans towards the end started to hate themselves. Maybe they expanded too much and their identity became too multicultural.		View
2 August 2018	1	15	momentum unstoppable hannibal the father of strategy, seemed unstoppable until he was. rome seemed unstoppable until it was slowing the opposing force, can change likelihood of future outcomes. again, dont interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake		View
4 June 2022	1	15	The Roman Empire.		View
26 May 2022	1	14	damn maybe we shouldnt defund the police afterall. this is nuts. i think these cases of under training and general infrastructure failure are going to become more common place in america rome fell, because it couldnt do its basic tasks, like maintain roads		View
8 October 2021	1	13	THE ANCIENT ROMANS WERE TRULY ENLIGHTENED. THEY USED TO HAVE COMMUNAL PUBLIC TOILETS. THIS IS WHERE A LOT OF BUSINESS AND GOSSIP USED TO TAKE PLACE. MULTI TASKING. THE MODERN DAY EQUIVALENT COULD BE POOPING WHILE ON A ZOOM CALL.		View
17 April 2021	1	12	not a graph but a map showing ancient trade routes of ancient rome trading with africa, south asia and east asia #graphthread		View
17 July 2022	1	12	The last days of rome.		View
10 June 2019	1	11	It’s also the Roman and Greek stance. On a tv shaw Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus aka Pompey Tells a slave that the slave does not have to worry about such existential topics. Pompey soon loses his head due to civil war.		View
7 July 2021	1	11	Rome took 500 years to collapse. Imagine if they did a pivot and rebrand. Problem solved.		View
9 October 2021	1	11	Americans see the world different to every one else. no one else thinks like an american. sometimes it is not the roman the provides the best critique of rome. sometimes an outsider ought to put up a mirror to a society		View
26 May 2018	1	9	long run this will actually lead to an increase in diversity as people will move from their city to a city of their preference see Singapore and other city states, high trade, high immigration also see the city states of Greece and rome, and how they had differing solutions		View
14 February 2021	1	9	ROME THE CITY ENVELOPED THE ETRUSCANS, THEN THE REST OF THE ITALIAN TRIBES AND CITIES. EVENTUALLY MANY BARBARIAN AND GOTH TRIBES WERE SLOWLY INCORPORATED INTO IT, AND EVERYTIME IT ABSORBED ANOTHER ENTITY, ITS OWN COMPOSITION MORPHED. JUST LIKE MAJIN BUU		View
1 September 2018	1	8	indo aryans had contact with Alexander the great Chinese legacy of Confucian systemic bureaucracy can be seen in its variation of Marxism I smell motivated reasoning def freedom varied => democracy used to be land owning males romans=/=byzantine no slaves but had caste system		View
11 June 2021	1	8	The other thing that happened to rome was the decline of its military. The subsequent and later empires saw the army as an institution they did not seem to like as such it declined. Their borders fell.		View
2 January 2022	1	8	Steroid user to jobless schizo twitter poster pipeline is very strong. Apollo and Roman are two extreme examples		View
5 March 2018	1	7	@onnlucky posted before: but i think its really good to consider, it mentions a book called marriage and civilisation, which also explains how it marriage and sexual liberty have flip flopped between liberal and illiberal and affects on society, ie rome		View
1 February 2020	1	7	Previous chat had alot of tangents into philosophy and morality and other interesting topics like the Roman empire Shall I host another chat on my discord server tomorrow? To update and discuss the coronavirus again ?		View
9 June 2021	1	7	I disagree with taleb on his preference of Romans over Greeks. Too much of either lead to the destruction of their respective civilisations.		View
11 June 2021	1	7	The other decline of the Roman Empire was its inability to maintain infrastructure. Lead pipes. But also roads no longer functioned. This is also tied into the issue of currency slowly becoming worthless. Bad infrastructure is dysgenic too.		View
26 July 2018	1	6	reality tv - dark web fight channels modern day Colosseum fights to the death of steroid enhanced CRISPR mutants we can make this happen		View
11 June 2021	1	6	What also happened within rome again this is tied in with Roman identity Roman social hierarchies totally collapsed.		View
18 June 2018	1	5	early proliferation of romans could be argued that they learnt to cooperate with other "tribes" and groups and thus create bigger groups, within a shared identity. compared to smaller tribes of the other roman civs and the gauls, both of which were colonised by rome		View
21 October 2018	1	5	Depends on your tribe. One man's freedom fighter is another's terrorist. Think of the Romans. A jewish upstart who takes over and destroys their culture and way of life.		View
18 June 2018	1	4	more on lost Aquilae rome spent decades trying to recover the lost military standards : signalling: high cost signals-mean more in terms of evo psych "gangsters" wear jewellery as its showboating and demonstrating value social capital same principle		View
16 July 2018	1	4	when you watch sport, your brain thinks you are playing mimesis based learning ? links with the theory that sport stemmed from the practice of sport being a practice for warfare, boxing, jousting and the Colosseum, sports => lowers cost risk		View
17 August 2018	1	4	he has his own place of worship too A caesareum = temple devoted to the Imperial cult. Caesarea were located throughout the Roman Empire, and often funded by the imperial government, some converted to other places of worship such as church or mosque		View
6 February 2018	1	3	i think we should increase the number of names we have, romans had 3 names that could be changed. we should also have more than 2 names		View
18 June 2018	1	3	early Republicans were tribal 3 original tribes whose leaders became patrician tribes added overtime reached total of 35 merging tribes is a contrast to others in Italy & Gaul which resisted cooperation 500 years after Roman combined tribal structure Gauls were still separated		View
18 June 2018	1	3	genetic altruism = powerful function of biology when scaled up like it was in rome created larger ingroups of common descent, despite not close relation this notion of tribe helped facilitate nepotism in governance and state roles gens and castes had inherited professions		View
5 June 2018	1	2	“In largest frame, everything is fine.” sounds very much like the message Lucius Annaeus Seneca preached to Roman readers of the mid-first century, relying on Stoic philosophy, rather than an organic hallucinogen, as a way to glimpse that truth Interconnectedness of all things		View
9 June 2018	1	2	For Late Republican politicians without any famous ancestors (a group famously known as ‘new men’ or ‘homines novi’) The adoption of such an austere and wizened visage there was value in having notable lineage - verism ancient romans would exaggerate this to signal gravitas		View
9 June 2018	1	2	Verism ~ hyperrealism sculpture where naturally occurring features are exaggerated, often to absurdity. In Roman Republican portraiture, middle age males adopt veristic tendencies in their portraiture to such an extent that they appear to be extremely aged and care worn.		View
8 September 2018	1	2	thread on the apotheosis of heroes, main focus on Caesar, and how he started a pseudo religion within the pantheon of roman gods a cult, tmk how the world still uses his name to signify greatness in title		View
3 May 2018	1	1	>trousers "western" = funny >native america >pajamas in asia were "trousers" romans hated the gauls who wore trousers - thought of it as a barbarian whole issue on cultural appropriation is dumb greek philosophy would be lost if it wasnt for al andalus everything is meshed		View
10 June 2018	1	1	@Kurdishlogician im gonna do some research into ancient greek localism. and more on classical localism itself too. there were alot of micro kingdoms, even in italy, etruscans and rome itself. same in ancient india and china, but i think china may be beyond redemption. too centralised		View
20 June 2018	1	1	threading here, seems like a cultural identity weirdly enough from another conversation below, about ancient roman empire and similar tendencies, genetically theyve also been to show theyre representative of the past [tmk]		View
29 September 2018	1	1	only looking in one direction, tends to leave you oblivious to the other directions that need to be gazed upon. janus looked both ways with the focus on romans on this threads there is a contrast to current stance which has more of a cult of youth		View
10 March 2018	1	0	Idk ancient rome n Greece were hedonistic even Andalusia spain. Pendulum swings baby		View
29 December 2025	0	71	@Shamgar1132694 @Clint_Davey1 it was extremely foreign to them. grey misty island that was full of forests and swamps where it was always cloudy, wet and windy. and the inhabitants were covered in blue. resistant to order that rome demanded. it was at the time the edge of the known world.		View
27 February 2025	0	55	@balajis They didn’t just “give up” They bled out from a thousand cuts. Some over decades and centuries. Took Rome 500 to collapse.		View
12 November 2023	0	30	One thing travelling teaches you is that queueing peacefully is actually very offensive to a lot of people. Many 3rd world nations. Absolutely hate and detest queues. The more you queue. The more cucked weak and passive you are to them. This isn’t rome anymore. This is the…		View
15 May 2021	0	24	Making a public bet. Scotland to secede from the UK within 10 years. They’ve been trying since braveheart and before then since the Romans.		View
16 April 2023	0	24	collapse isnt instantaneous or simultaneous it is a slow grinding halting of gears rome took 500 years to collapse roads slowly stopped being paved food and grain supply chains being slowly cut up rent and land being taken over the oligarchs and government lead in pipes...		View
21 August 2022	0	23	They had these in Ancient Rome		View

History

GritCult first posted about Rome on 29 January 2018, and most recently on 12 May 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 253 times, most often in 2018 (104 posts).

See also

Warlords & Empires portal

References

1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (12 February 2025). every man has a moral imperative to study the decline and fall of Rome. X.
2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (11 June 2021). The decline of America mirrors the decline of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire killed its middle class. The Roman Empire killed its currency. Both of these are happening to America rn. X.
3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (10 December 2022). Towards the end of Ancient Rome. Birth rates plummeted. The poor couldn't afford them. X.
4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 December 2020). ROME IS ETERNAL. SEMPER IDEM, AERE PERENNIUS. X.
5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (14 August 2018). the romans showed the world, how effective trained and professional soldiers are compared with just common tribal folk, even against less disciplined armies. X.
6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (13 September 2025). Roman society admired the greeks, but looked down on them because they were overly intellectual. Whereas the Romans were more interested in practical engineering. X.
7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (9 June 2018). households were filled with the busts and statues of their dead ancestors, a constant reminder of the fate that awaits them, and a memento for them to focus on their legacy. X.
8. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (2 May 2026). Rome ran on slavery for a thousand years and produced no abolitionist movement. X.
9. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 March 2025). You'll never go wrong by mistrusting and being skeptical of everyone who doesn't admire the Roman Empire in some regard. X.

Further reading

• “Get jacked, build a cult, and get $$$ with Gritcult”, GritCult on Other Life (November 2021)

External links

• Posts about Rome by GRITCULT on X
• Rome on Wikipedia