What have the Romans ever done for us?
"Reg: All right ... all right ... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order ... what have the Romans done for us?" From Monty Python's Life of Brian
The point is that Reg and thousands since Reg think that the Romans presented us the peak of civilisation before we were plunged into the world of the Barbarians and the Dark Ages.
Increasingly, however, we have learnt that a large amount of what Rome gave was actually just stolen from the "Barbarians" that eventually pulled down the Empire.
Are we all in an individual post-Roman mindset where we accept so much the orthodox that we are spoon fed without actually questioning it?
What more could we all achieve if we adopted a Barbarian mindset rather than a Roman one?
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