Are We Collapsing Like Ancient Greece?

Can Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War” illuminate our current situation? Financier and historian Adam Townsend tells Lee Smith we can learn how to understand the present by reading this classic of Western literature.

01:09 Adam Townsend, financier and historian

01:59 Discussing Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War” 

03:56 Townsend: Understanding the present through ancient history

08:55 Learning from history how to tell a story about the present 

10:06 Biden presidency is source of confusion and disillusionment

11:35 Is Biden incompetent or intentionally sabotaging society?

17:10 Thucydides provides solution in resolving today’s complexity 

21:41 Prosperity sucked out of America through greed and globalism 

24:20 How elites demoralize, humiliate, and disarm their opposition

29:39 Guarding our mental space against the media

30:40 Thucydides’ teaches us to understand our own story

33:17 Thucydides’ teaches us to tell our own story

Adam suggests doing meditation to safe-guard our own mind

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