physical reality. When the state in it's splendor walks before them, demanding their obeisance, some
men rebel against the sublime terror they feel, and name it tyranny.
Tyranny is but government described by the targets of government. To a criminal, the laws are
tyrannical, or perhaps the agents of the law. He is doing as his human reason would dictate, and the
law tyrannizes him. So any government is tyranny.
Ah, but government has a purpose! A divinely-ordained purpose: to engender the res publica.
So tyranny is government contrary to its just purpose. Just so. And then the issue becomes which God
commands it. Let Neptune create a government, and it will favor the fisherman, Vulcan, the smiths,
Venus, the prostitutes, etc. But I am the government, and I am the God, and so my will is the law. Thus
it would be tyrannical of me not to butcher the Senators when they offend me.
Is not human reason amusing?
But this is not what Romans accept. Romans have disrupted their state in the name of liberty.
They cast down the monarchy at the folly of a single rex. They did this that the Senate and People
might govern themselves. Which led, in sufficient time, to Gaius Marius subverting the consulate to the
military needs of the people and his own political needs, to Sulla doing the same, but more, to the
Divine Julius compelling the absurdity of a Dictator Perpetuus, and the Divine Augustus creating the
Principate to avoid his predecessor's fate. Which leads to me. Whom they bear, with seething
abasement. They pretend to love me with greater and greater displays as if I am fooled by this. As if I
cannot see the absurdity of them. If these were truly the leaders of a Republic of free Romans, I would
not exist as I am. I know it and they know it.
But I will go deeper yet. I will disrupt the entire foundation of our so-called Republic, of the lie
that exists at the center of it, and always has.
First, consider its rise. The Republic was built when Tarquin the Proud was overthrown. Now, I
must admit that I cannot fault that act. Tarquin invited this when he conspired in the death of his own