KNOWLEDGE OF SELF

Before the small village of Rome became "Rome" with a capital R

A brilliant civilization once controlled almost the entire peninsula

We now call Italy this was the Etruscan civilization

A vanished culture whose achievements set the stage

Not only for the development of ancient Roman art and culture

But for the Italian Renaissance as well

Optimism is discredited not so much

And certainly not only because its tenets are shown to be implausible

In the light of the evidence

But essentially because it is a system

As such it is as inhuman and as dangerous as all the other systems