Fabius actually was using tactics that the Romans had learned from the Samnites during the wars where they were conquered. One of the criticisms of Fabius was he fought like a Samnite, who pre Carthage were the boogeyman of Rome hardy mountain warriors that they were.
But this plays well into the post, as there is always an after, there was always a before to learn from.
In our case cities once functioned well or at least made more sense but as to why is its own post.
@futureurbanistclub on IG for People~First urbanism from a human who knows the before to a depth few others will ever spend the time too
My sister brought us back a painting of the Notre Dame cathedral, and we drove it across the country with us when we moved.
The cathedral took over a century to complete, so no one who worked on the project at its start would have been alive when the cathedral was finished.
I try to remember that life may call us to unsatisfying work. Like you’re talking about the infinite game; we won’t get the ego boost of a clean and clear victory, followed by rest and a state of perpetual non-conflict.
We seem to be the elemental plane of inciting incidents; anywhere you turn, a new unexpected turn of events that keeps knocking humans out of our complacency; things are never neatly done, we just apply ourselves and mend what we can, and one day the timer will run out on our individual lives, but multi-century cathedrals still get built, and then they’re maintained long enough for a street painter so sell my sister a souvenir to bring home to us. The things we do may not seem to matter much, like Gandhi said, but it may be very important that we do them.
Fabius actually was using tactics that the Romans had learned from the Samnites during the wars where they were conquered. One of the criticisms of Fabius was he fought like a Samnite, who pre Carthage were the boogeyman of Rome hardy mountain warriors that they were.
But this plays well into the post, as there is always an after, there was always a before to learn from.
In our case cities once functioned well or at least made more sense but as to why is its own post.
@futureurbanistclub on IG for People~First urbanism from a human who knows the before to a depth few others will ever spend the time too
My sister brought us back a painting of the Notre Dame cathedral, and we drove it across the country with us when we moved.
The cathedral took over a century to complete, so no one who worked on the project at its start would have been alive when the cathedral was finished.
I try to remember that life may call us to unsatisfying work. Like you’re talking about the infinite game; we won’t get the ego boost of a clean and clear victory, followed by rest and a state of perpetual non-conflict.
We seem to be the elemental plane of inciting incidents; anywhere you turn, a new unexpected turn of events that keeps knocking humans out of our complacency; things are never neatly done, we just apply ourselves and mend what we can, and one day the timer will run out on our individual lives, but multi-century cathedrals still get built, and then they’re maintained long enough for a street painter so sell my sister a souvenir to bring home to us. The things we do may not seem to matter much, like Gandhi said, but it may be very important that we do them.
Terrific piece.