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Unapologetic Cicero stan. Job = Associate Professor of Classics and Women's and Gender Studies at Texas Tech University. All Cicero memes WILL be reposted.
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Yes. It's totally insane to me that the state senator for Lubbock has started parroting anti-academic viewpoints, given that Texas Tech is the largest employer in this city.
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He must have known that no one could top the GOAT at juggling babies and a peroration.
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Sure, you may have delivered closing arguments, lawyers, but have you ever done so while holding a wailing infant?!
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This is a good note, thanks!
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My family of 3 lives in a 2100 square foot house built in 1956. I can't imagine how luxurious it must have been back then. Now it pales in comparison to the new builds in our town. (Oh, and one of the bedrooms is huge so that it could be shared by multiple children, which would be anathema today.)
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I refused to use crutches for my knee - I've never been able to navigate with them comfortably. Started with a walker, transitioned to a cane. Hiking sticks are also a nice alternative. Hope it all goes smoothly!
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Maybe Ted Cruz will actually become the Cicero he dreams of being.
Nah, too spineless, even for Cicero.
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I live in Lubbock (epicenter of the current epidemic) and follow a crunchy moms group that's mostly anti-vaxxers. Someone posted anonymously about their family's experience with measles, and the whole family got it, vaxxed and unvaxxed alike.
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This is the only bright spot of news in this wretched outbreak! L has her 4 year appointment in about a month and I'll be glad to get her boosted.
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And the ones with single MMR doses are probably kids under 4-6, which sucks. I live in Lubbock and my daughter's about to turn 4--can't wait to get her her booster.
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Wonder how much longer they'll allow us to be in the workforce and have our own bank accounts.
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Oh good, you fixed it.
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LMAO at the idea that Cicero would ever talk shit about anyone writing a book.
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I regret to inform you that this filled 9147 busy colleagues' inboxes and changed 0 minds.
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😬Glad L goes to a daycare that doesn't accept vaccine exemptions!
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This is sheer perfection.
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We ARE the same!
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We put our foot down in 2021. If they want to spend it with us, they can come here. Either way we will make all the yummiest things and add people who need Thanksgiving cheer to our table.
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Yes! It's not even clear what it means and why it's supposed to be such a devastating insult. It is very indicative of a punching-down personality.
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Hey, I got this exact line from someone who managed to use veto power to keep me from getting a tenure track job! Solidarity!
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I know several librarians and they are classed as faculty and tenure-line here. They tell me that A&M just stripped their librarians of this with almost no notice, so everyone is a bit jumpy.
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That's the one part of his biography that is of some interest in this period - the Catilinarians were on the Third Reich syllabus. But interestingly, Catiline was a hero to Leninists and some Fascists.
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And finally, the loss of knowledge and tradition is truly heartbreaking, and has long-term effects. Classical studies, which had begun to blossom in Russia, lost almost a century, and the proud position of Germany as THE destination for Altertumswissenschaft never fully recovered.
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In short, certain figures from antiquity are more easily beloved by totalitarian regimes than others. (And it isn't those who insisted on freedom of speech and thought.) And all academics are figures of suspicion, unless they agree to be spokespeople for the regime.
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As a result, the Germans, who had been the leading producers of Ciceronian scholarship in 1933, published only 2 articles in 1947. Their tradition of excellence had been wiped out. The primary beneficiaries of this dearth were Americans, who began to busily produce Ciceronian scholarship.
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Cicero was unpopular because he didn't emphasize enough the role played by blood ties and race in the virtue of Rome.
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Another philologist, Karl Meister, had his dismissal proceedings initiated after giving a lecture entitled "Cicero as orator and politician." This was part of a general purge from the academy of scholars who did not toe the regime's line.
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The robust tradition of German philology was now suspect, an example of "those unbearable humanists of the Weimarer Klassik". Beginning in 1933, numerous scholars were dismissed from their posts, including the most famous Ciceronian, Konrat Ziegler.
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Hitler took a middle course. He was enamored of Greece and Rome and wanted their broad strokes learned in school. However, any account of antiquity that did not adhere to his views of the ideal state was punished.
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For Stalin, Greek and Latin were considered a social marker of the elites, and therefore disappeared from secondary and post-secondary education. Famous scholars were condemned to exile (Zielinski, Rostovtzeff), less famous to persecution or even the gulag.
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And indeed, all 3 totalitarian regimes of this period (USSR, Fascism, National Socialism) disdained Cicero. Mussolini, the most cultured of the three, adopted Mommsen's opposition between Cicero and Caesar: his ideal man was a man of action, not an author. His Cicero lacked nerve and was useless.
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To cut out Cicero's tongue, to gouge out Copernicus's eyes, to stone Shakespeare [...]. The thirst for study is an aristocratic thirst [...] Only the necessary is necessary, such will henceforth be the motto of the terrestrial globe."