Alex Petkas - From Republic to Autocracy. Cost of Glory

Alex Petkas of Cost of Glory podcast joins us to chat about his Ph.D in the Classics, getting out of academia, his series on Plutarch's 'Parrellel Lives', Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.   We chat about how the education has changed - intentionally and especially since the 60's, Sulla the Roman General, Fiction based on Fact books on a way to learn history, the campaign of Caesar, the Classics, Rhetoric, rule by experts, the art of ruling and being ruled, The Battle for the American Mind, how Democracy used to be related to mobile military capacity, Lawfare, and how it always ends in Tyranny.   In the second half we get into Roman civil war, the change in education, the chain of greatness, the modern German Research Institute and the creation of Ph.D's, new UNI's like Austin and Rolston, the founding of America, Plutarch, Xenophon, the real meaning of Philosopher, personal development, the story of the Giant, the meaning of Virtue, Plato's school, the 7th letter, and the big Rome question. How do we get back to traditions of Epic and honoring great men.   https://www.costofglory.com/about   To gain access to the second half of show and our Plus feed for audio and podcast please clink the link http://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca/support.   For second half of video (when applicable and audio) go to our Substack and Subscribe. https://grimericaoutlawed.substack.com/ or to our Locals  https://grimericaoutlawed.locals.com/ or Rokfin www.Rokfin.com/Grimerica Patreon https://www.patreon.com/grimericaoutlawed   Support the show directly: https://grimerica.ca/support-2/ Outlawed Canadians YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OutlawedCanadians Our Adultbrain Audiobook Podcast and Website: www.adultbrain.ca Our Audiobook Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@adultbrainaudiobookpublishing/videos Darren's book www.acanadianshame.ca Check out our next trip/conference/meetup - Contact at the Cabin www.contactatthecabin.com Other affiliated shows: www.grimerica.ca The OG Grimerica Show www.Rokfin.com/Grimerica Our channel on free speech Rokfin Join the chat / hangout with a bunch of fellow Grimericans  Https://t.me.grimerica https://www.guilded.gg/chat/b7af7266-771d-427f-978c-872a7962a6c2?messageId=c1e1c7cd-c6e9-4eaf-abc9-e6ec0be89ff3   Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/grimerica-outlawed http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/grimerica-outlawed Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com InstaGRAM https://www.instagram.com/the_grimerica_show_podcast/  Purchase swag, with partial proceeds donated to the show www.grimerica.ca/swag Send us a postcard or letter http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/ ART - Napolean Duheme's site http://www.lostbreadcomic.com/  MUSIC Tru Northperception, Felix’s Site sirfelix.bandcamp.com