A healthy view of history

Words cannot express the curious mix of emotions I feel at this. I guess it's murder-nostaligia, a yearning for the old days of bread lines, summary executions, blaring patriotic anthems, statues, summary executions, shuffling peasantry, summary executions, and so on. As I said, words cannot express.

There is only one thing to do in a situation such as this: sleep, or rot one's brain until it's calm.

Consider: "...but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"