[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  π·ππππππ [@shagbark_hick](/creator/twitter/shagbark_hick) on x 41.7K followers Created: 2025-07-21 16:35:13 UTC G.K. Chesterton said: βMen did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.β Notice that he says "men" and "they" -- in the plural. One man cannot do it; the kind of greatness he describes cannot be willed into existence by one man. If you find you are the only one who loves a dying place, or one of the very, very few, that place will continue to decline in spite of your affinity for it. There is a "fulcrum point" in sheer numbers that must be achieved for the "Rome Effect" to be actuated and sustained... The solitary lover of a dying place is only a witness, or at best, a kind of tragic martyr. It is a hard, dark life; the sort of life that a monk-like bachelor could live, or a hearty couple... But with children? With children, it is a life that borders on cruelty to them. You give them a homeland that will only continue to die. It is a rotten inheritance to leave for them, and it will plague them as it plagued you unless some intense, sudden, unprecedented thing changes. No solitary man or even a small group of men can bring that kind of change about; it is a thing borne of the indifferent sands of history, the economy, and demographics... XXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [rome](/topic/rome) [Post Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1947334561291030829)
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G.K. Chesterton said:
βMen did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.β
Notice that he says "men" and "they" -- in the plural. One man cannot do it; the kind of greatness he describes cannot be willed into existence by one man.
If you find you are the only one who loves a dying place, or one of the very, very few, that place will continue to decline in spite of your affinity for it. There is a "fulcrum point" in sheer numbers that must be achieved for the "Rome Effect" to be actuated and sustained...
The solitary lover of a dying place is only a witness, or at best, a kind of tragic martyr. It is a hard, dark life; the sort of life that a monk-like bachelor could live, or a hearty couple...
But with children? With children, it is a life that borders on cruelty to them. You give them a homeland that will only continue to die. It is a rotten inheritance to leave for them, and it will plague them as it plagued you unless some intense, sudden, unprecedented thing changes. No solitary man or even a small group of men can bring that kind of change about; it is a thing borne of the indifferent sands of history, the economy, and demographics...
XXXXX engagements
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