I’m sure this would give Prof. Sadun heartburn, but he really needs to watch it. Please comment. I’m interested in hearing from the “experts” who read this blog about the descriptions of the various forms of government.
The View from Alexandria
In advanced civilizations the period loosely called Alexandrian is usually associated with flexible morals, perfunctory religion, populist standards and cosmopolitan tastes, feminism, exotic cults, and the rapid turnover of high and low fads—in short, a falling away (which is all that decadence means) from the strictness of traditional rules, embodied in character and inforced from within. — Jacques Barzun
