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Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…gotten to it yet the uh roman it's about a roman leader I don't think so. It doesn't sound familiar. What's he say? Sulla and young Marius? So bear with us, listeners. We're just trying to look up this quote. Sulla is actually a pretty interesting…
…sound familiar. What's he say? Sulla and young Marius? So bear with us, listeners. We're just trying to look up this quote. Sulla is actually a pretty interesting character. So Marius came before Sulla. Sulla was his underling in the Latin Wars, which were…
…with us, listeners. We're just trying to look up this quote. Sulla is actually a pretty interesting character. So Marius came before Sulla. Sulla was his underling in the Latin Wars, which were the wars where the other cities of Italy tried to rebel…
…us, listeners. We're just trying to look up this quote. Sulla is actually a pretty interesting character. So Marius came before Sulla. Sulla was his underling in the Latin Wars, which were the wars where the other cities of Italy tried to rebel against…
…the army and generally made the political system more open to the lower classes, or at least the less privileged rich people. And Sulla was sort of the conservative reaction against him. Yeah, so Solo was the younger of the two, and then Marius was the…
…him. Yeah, so Solo was the younger of the two, and then Marius was the one who was older, and eventually Marius did win. Um, Sulla won in the end. They kind of like went back and forth. Really? Sulla won in the end. Well, here's the quote. I don't…
…the one who was older, and eventually Marius did win. Um, Sulla won in the end. They kind of like went back and forth. Really? Sulla won in the end. Well, here's the quote. I don't know. Maybe you're more up to do with it. But so Francis Underwood is…
…young people try to take power, but they don't know. They don't have enough experience to do it. So he says when the Roman general Sulla, who was about the same age as I am now, Oh, yeah. Sulla was the older one. Marius was the younger one. I want…
…enough experience to do it. So he says when the Roman general Sulla, who was about the same age as I am now, Oh, yeah. Sulla was the older one. Marius was the younger one. I want to look this up, but you read this quote. So when the Roman general…
…was the older one. Marius was the younger one. I want to look this up, but you read this quote. So when the Roman general Sulla, who was about the same age as I am, marched on Rome to purge the city of usurpers, it was a bloodbath. His greatest…
…the city of usurpers, it was a bloodbath. His greatest rival was a young man named Marius, who was just 26 years old. And after Sulla had him killed, he held his head up in the forum and looked into the boy's dead eyes and said, First, you must learn…
…eyes and said, First, you must learn to pull an oar. Only then can you take the helm. I love that quote. Okay, so Sulla, born between 88 and 80 BC. Let's try to find Marius. So the premise... Marius born between... Marius, hold on. Marius born 157 BC.…
…between 88 and 80 BC. Let's try to find Marius. So the premise... Marius born between... Marius, hold on. Marius born 157 BC. Sulla born 88 BC. Sulla was decidedly the younger of the two. Marius came first. Sulla was the reaction. This is very bad…
…BC. Let's try to find Marius. So the premise... Marius born between... Marius, hold on. Marius born 157 BC. Sulla born 88 BC. Sulla was decidedly the younger of the two. Marius came first. Sulla was the reaction. This is very bad history on the part of…
…born between... Marius, hold on. Marius born 157 BC. Sulla born 88 BC. Sulla was decidedly the younger of the two. Marius came first. Sulla was the reaction. This is very bad history on the part of this frickin' show, I gotta tell ya. Well, I will say…
…this frickin' show, I gotta tell ya. Well, I will say this. I knew my chronology on that. Couldn't have been wrong. Because Sulla... Sulla outlasted Marius by a lot. Julius Caesar was actually prosecuted when he was a very young man under Sulla. He was…
…frickin' show, I gotta tell ya. Well, I will say this. I knew my chronology on that. Couldn't have been wrong. Because Sulla... Sulla outlasted Marius by a lot. Julius Caesar was actually prosecuted when he was a very young man under Sulla. He was able…
…been wrong. Because Sulla... Sulla outlasted Marius by a lot. Julius Caesar was actually prosecuted when he was a very young man under Sulla. He was able to get away from it. Sulla wanted to kill him. And the famous like the first like famous quote…
…by a lot. Julius Caesar was actually prosecuted when he was a very young man under Sulla. He was able to get away from it. Sulla wanted to kill him. And the famous like the first like famous quote about Caesar was Sulla said he saw many a Marius in…
…Sulla. He was able to get away from it. Sulla wanted to kill him. And the famous like the first like famous quote about Caesar was Sulla said he saw many a Marius in him. Well, I think too, I think I did look this up once upon a time. It was like…