A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Nowhere
The lady on Tik Tok who claims the Roman Empire never existed is clearly a fool. Plus, like many such fools she is insufferably belligerent, condescending and arrogant. No one need waste any time considering her peculiar thesis. Well, no one except myself for of course I am curious about how such odd ideas work and how, if necessary, they are to be effectively combated. There is no piece of evidence the believers in Romans can point to that cannot be dismissed as fraudulent or fake or part of a conspiracy by Roman skeptics. This is why arguments about evidence in a piecemeal, point by point fashion play into the Roman skeptic’s hands. Thus, it is useful to consider the real grounds on which we dismiss (deservedly) such a theory as cranky almost without consideration. Considering these will save us a great deal of time we might have wasted wrangling with cranks and fools. The Tik Tok lady in question claims, as various people have in the past it seems, that in the 16 th Century R...