The Roman Emperor Caligula and Today's World

My dad and I have been watching on DVD the BBC
television series I, Claudius which was apparently a big
hit on BBC television and American PBS television back
in the early 1980s.

The program deals with the reign of
Rome's first 4 Emperors Augustus, Tiberius,
Caligula and Claudius.

It's amazing how much ancient Rome resembled
today's America or maybe it's more proper to say
how much today's America resembles ancient
Rome.

As one woman character remarked in the film,
"How much Rome has changed in my lifetime.
Those who are married live apart and those who
aren't married live together."

I haven't heard a better description of modern
America and modern Canada and modern Europe.

Caligula has always been one of the most fascinating
of the Roman Emperors.

He named a horse to the Roman Senate.

Probably one of the more astute actions of the
Emperor Caligula as both the modern U.S.
and Canadian Senates are full of horse's asses.

I imagine the ancient Roman Senate was much the same
way.

Caligula was also the first Emperor to acclaim
himself a god in his own lifetime.

Other Emperors waited until they had kicked
the bucket first.

But in our own time, psychotic nutcases such as Oprah
Winfrey are busy yapping and telling people to get in touch
with their "deity within".

So instead of one Caligula, we have hundreds of thousands
of Caligulas running around these days.

In more ways than one.

As Caligula was a bisexual transexual transgendered crossdresser.

Modern America is full of these.

The sodomite Episcopalian bishop Vicki Gene Robinson
gave the opening prayer (no doubt to the ancient Canaanite
god Moloch) at the start of Obama Inauguration festivities
at the Lincoln Memorial.

No doubt Lincoln is shocked at what modern America has come to.

A nation of sexually anatomically challenged perverts who use the
nice and pleasant sounding euphemism "gay" to describe their
sexually perverted activities.

Because of this, what many people are hailing
as the start of a new Camelot with the advent of
Barack Obama will probably turn out to be in a few years
time the flaming smouldering ruins of a 21st Century Sodom
and Gomorrah.