We owe Shakespeare a lot in re branding the wannabe dictator Julius Caeser into a Roman martyr.
According to Shakespeare, whose plays were bankrolled by the British Crown, Brutus and Cassius were not only traitors but treacherous fellows of the worst kind who assassinated Julius Caeser in cold blood.

While Shakespeare did acknowledge Brutus' motives in assassinating Caeser (for Brutus stated that Rome must remain a democratic Republic) Shakespeare failed to portray Caeser in his true colors. Caeser's ambition to transform the Republic to his personal Kingdom was doused by Shakespeare who wanted us to believe that the Roman proletarian class were the ones urging Caeser to assume maximum powers as Rome's first despotic ruler.

When Caeser crossed the Rubicon river, he did this not as a showcase of his military conquest of Gaul in a victory parade in Rome but as a final putsch towards assuming supreme powers and authority over Rome.
This is how the idiom "Crossing the Rubicon" came about which means to pass a point of no return. Julius Caesar uttered the famous phrase "alea iacta est"—the die is cast as his army marched through the shallow river - an act which was considered an insurrection and treasonable offence. Caeser's deliberate act of treason which he committed by Crossing the Rubicon was premeditated and well planned towards seizing power for himself and bringing to an end the Roman democratic tradition . Even the word "cease" owes it's origin to Julius Ceaser.


Now why will Shakespeare distort history in his plays? Well, Shakespeare happened to have enjoyed a very generous annual pension from the British Crown and patronage among the English nobility during his time. There are even speculations that Shakespeare may not have authored most of his plays. Around 230 years after Shakespeare's death, doubts began to be expressed about the authorship of the works attributed to him. Proposed alternative candidates include Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. The Elizabethan era began the erosion of monarchial powers with mounted pressure by some members of the political class demanding the Monarchy assume ceremonial roles. It is thus not coincidental that Shakespeare will rewrite the history of ancient Rome in an attempt to portray the Roman Senate as treacherous. Shakespeare's caricature depiction of Cassius as sickly and bent was a personification of democracy and the legislative powers of elected officials below that of the Monarchy. Hence the need to depict Cassius a standing Senator of Rome as a sickly angry leach!

The final outcome of Caeser's attempt at assuming full maximum powers is that Rome ceased to be a democracy, a civil war ensued and the man Caeser died and with him the glory of a democratic Republic of Rome.

Just like Shakespeare (or his nobility muse) we have today a very active propaganda machinery desperate at un-bundling the Senate and ushering in a despotic ruler.

Summary please

Shakespear and Ceaser did not live when Nigerian Senate dey.

They would have modified their belief with some exceptions.

These are power drunk rogues. Stealing and sharing the loot to secure their base.

The Enabling Act was a 1933 Weimar Constitution amendment that gave the German Cabinet – in effect, Chancellor Adolf Hitler – the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. It passed in both the Reichstag and Reichsrat on 23 March 1933, and was signed by President Paul von Hindenburg later that day.

The act stated that it was to last four years unless renewed by the Reichstag, which occurred twice. The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers. It followed on the heels of the Reichstag Fire Decree, which abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the Reich government. The combined effect of the two laws was to transform Hitler's government into a legal dictatorship.

The formal name of the Enabling Act was Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich (Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich). It was enacted by the Reichstag (meeting at the Kroll Opera House), where non-Nazi members were surrounded and threatened by members of SA and SS. The Communists had already been repressed and were not able to vote, and some Social Democrats were kept away as well. In the end, nearly all of those present voted for the act, except for the Social Democrats, who voted against it.

AntiWailer:
Shakespear and Ceaser did not live when Nigerian Senate dey.

They would have modified their belief with some exceptions.

These are power drunk rogues. Stealing and sharing the loot to secure their base.

History does not repeat itself. It is men who fail to consult history who keep repeating history and blaming her for their woes.

ImadeUReadThis:


History does not repeat itself. It is men who fail to consult history who keep repeating history and blaming her for their woes.

This has nothing to do with what we are saying.

Am i missing something ?

AntiWailer:


This has nothing to do with what we are saying.

Am i missing something ?

The democratic process you enjoy today is alien to your culture and owes it's inception from the Grecko-Roman era.

Over 2,000 yrs before even your Nigeria was created by an alien white man, some people had already perfected democracy as a form of governance.

Their triumphs and pitfalls are researched and studied by political scientists till this day in order to avoid the same mistakes they made or learn from their success.

But a buharists zombie like yourself will think the world began on may 29th 2015!

ImadeUReadThis:


The democratic process you enjoy today is alien to your culture and owes it's inception from the Grecko-Roman era.

Over 2,000 yrs before even your Nigeria was created by an alien white man, some people had already perfected democracy as a form of governance.

Their triumphs and pitfalls are researched and studied by political scientists till this day in order to avoid the same mistakes they made or learn from their success.

But a buharists zombie like yourself will think the world began on may 29th 2015!

This is beautiful nonsense.

I salute your courage to write rubbish and still be proud of it.

AntiWailer:


This is beautiful nonsense.

I salute your courage to write rubbish and still be proud of it.

Zombie

ImadeUReadThis:


Zombie

Shun Sir.

ImadeUReadThis:

You are one of the most brilliant minds in this country. I pray the Nigerian environment does not starve it of nourishment. The concept you elucidate unfortunately is beyond the comprehension of even some of the best educated of out fellow citizens.

Bunp

Reading about the popular phrase always thrown by my line manager whenever he is enraged about Ceaser crossing the rubicon really made my day.
Let's remove Buhari/Jonathan and re-read this again and take the lessons home.
Even as a father in your home, being democratic as he said above entails your allowing the views of your family members to heard also.
Concentration of powers centrally to 1 person has dire consequence mostly to those calling to occupy NASS.
Thanks so much for the insight, thumbs up.

ImadeUReadThis:


The democratic process you enjoy today is alien to your culture and owes it's inception from the Grecko-Roman era.

Over 2,000 yrs before even your Nigeria was created by an alien white man, some people had already perfected democracy as a form of governance.

Their triumphs and pitfalls are researched and studied by political scientists till this day in order to avoid the same mistakes they made or learn from their success.

But a buharists zombie like yourself will think the world began on may 29th 2015!

The most intelligent on this thread! Thumb's Up!

The People's Tyrant

Plato thought political regimes followed a predictable evolutionary course, from oligarchy to democracy to tyranny. Oligarchies give way to democracies when the elites fail, when they become spoiled, lazy, profligate, and when they develop interests apart from those they rule.

Democracies give way to tyrannies when mob passion overwhelms political wisdom and a populist autocrat seizes the masses. But the tyrant is not quite a tyrant at first. On the contrary, in a democracy the would-be tyrant offers himself as the people’s champion. He’s the ultimate simplifier, the one man who can make everything whole again.

Sound familiar?

Other than Plato's wise council on how a civilized society can find itself a few generations ahead under the vice-grip of a tyrant, the Holy Bible contain a treasure trove of wisdom on how mankind eventually lost their freedoms to their fellow man in the form of hero-worship.

God's original grand plan for man was for man to exist side by side with Him. Then man rebelled and God had to banish Adam and Eve from His presence.

God's overwhelming love for mankind led God to still establish contact with man via heavenly emissaries to those select few He saw worthy of His contact warning and guiding the people through His Prophets of old. We can then safely assume that Theocracy was the first and earliest form of human governance.

Then the temptation of Moses occurred where he gave in to appointing Judges to help deputize God's authority among the Israelites. This marked the Legislative era of corrupt judges.

Groaning under the corruption they had found themselves, the Jews decided that it be wise to appoint a single man among themselves to rule over them and to purge the corruption of the Judges and Priests. The anointing of Saul as King was the beginning of tyranny that the Jews will face for most part of their history.

Despotism thus arises when a given set of people have given up on their own ability to govern themselves and it usually precedes that of a democratized period.

We are witnessing a severe assault on our nascent democracy by surprisingly enough those who are currently within the corridor of power as a result of the same democratic processes.

To these set of charlatans, democracy is merely a means to acquire power and not a suitable form of governance.

To these bunch of tin gods, the very people who elected them into power are to be whipped into line and their concerns and voice gagged.

Surprisingly their gullible zombies are very much in agreement with their assault on democracy and her tenets.

I don't blame Buhari at all for being a despot and a tyrant neither do I blame his hordes of Abacha era cronies and sycophants that have been transplanted from their state of hibernation into the corridors of Aso Rock. Rather I lay the blame squarely on the myopic, slavish and gullible morons who voted and still champion this despot as the best thing since slice bread.

This Dictator is not even a saint. We must defend the sanctity of Parliament because they are the true representative of the people.

I just started following op

He's of sound mind, unlike nairaland resident zombies, bereaved of reasoning!!!

Sarki
Omenkalives
Madridguy
Hungerbad

All zombies + Bmc employes

Come and learn, study, and show thyself approved

ImadeUReadThis:


The democratic process you enjoy today is alien to your culture and owes it's inception from the Grecko-Roman era.

Over 2,000 yrs before even your Nigeria was created by an alien white man, some people had already perfected democracy as a form of governance.

Their triumphs and pitfalls are researched and studied by political scientists till this day in order to avoid the same mistakes they made or learn from their success.

But a buharists zombie like yourself will think the world began on may 29th 2015!

...You are way too smart for these apc zombies..,They are not called zombies for nothing..The zombie tag on them is so apt its not even funny.

...Their ability to think and use their initiatives politically and economically for the betterment of the Nigerian citizens like a normal human should, has been completely wiped off by their cult-like adoration for a proven failure like Buhar/APC...Its a shame.

OP... Thank you sir

Ngokafor:




...You are way too smart for these apc zombies..,They are not called zombies for nothing..The zombie tag on them is so apt its not even funny.

...Their ability to think and use their initiatives politically and economically for the betterment of the Nigerian citizens like a normal human should, has been completely wiped off by their cult-like adoration for a proven failure like Buhar/APC...Its a shame.

One of them opened a thread yesterday calling for a return to military rule

bantudra:
military rule could work for us...we just need to adjust it a little....

in military rule,their is no way people like dino,saraki or jonathan would be talking rubbish in our face and get away with it...

capatainrambo:
I just started following op

He's of sound mind, unlike nairaland resident zombies, bereaved of reasoning!!!

Sarki
Omenkalives
Madridguy
Hungerbad

All zombies + Bmc employes

Come and learn, study, and show thyself approved

With those BMC names I am reminded of the statement by Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-get-a-man-to-understand-something

Paid posters make a living from being obstinate, pretending not to grasp the apparent unsoundness of some of their arguments.

ImadeUReadThis:


One of them opened a thread yesterday calling for a return to military rule

...Its crazy indeed...Left to them the Judiciary should be done away with as well and court rulings discarded so that buhari can 'fight corruption' effectively

...According to them,Buhari and buhari/apc alone should exist and allowed to do whatever they like unchalleged because they can never go wrong..smh!

Ngokafor:



...Its crazy indeed...Left to them the Judiciary should be done away as well and court rulings discarded so that buhari can 'fight corruption' effectively

...According to them,Buhari and buhari/apc alone should exist and allowed to do whatever they like unchalleged because they can never go wrong..smh!

I think it's high time IQ tests are utilised as a criteria before one can get a voters card.

The reoccurring decimal among zombies is their IQ which hovers between that of a field mouse and a cow.

ImadeUReadThis:


I think it's high time IQ tests are utilised as a criteria before one can get a voters card.

The reoccurring decimal among zombies is their IQ which hovers between that of a field mouse and a cow.

...Spot on

ImadeUReadThis:


History does not repeat itself. It is men who fail to consult history who keep repeating history and blaming her for their woes.

I love this. Understanding history makes one a prophet but its a pity we will always have zombies who will nail the prophet to the cross.

Nairaland zombies will not like dis

Very good analysis.
Our Legislators should use their Education to reduce Presidential Scope of Authorities and Responsibilities. Decentralize INEC, Local Governments should relate to Traditional Rulers and be responsible to them for the election of State Governors. States will contribute 10% of all their earnings to F.G. to run Foreign Affairs, Military and Treaties.

olaoge:
Summary please

Very precise.

AntiWailer:


This is beautiful nonsense.

I salute your courage to write rubbish and still be proud of it.

This is The Dividend of an educated Citizen. Our own W.S.(Wole Shoyinka) should help our Legislators thiswise to channel them to perfect Democracy.

jerseyboy:


You are one of the most brilliant minds in this country. I pray the Nigerian environment does not starve it of nourishment. The concept you elucidate unfortunately is beyond the comprehension of even some of the best educated of out fellow citizens.

A Government that can't use the glaring practical experience of Okonjo Iweala, 'cos of its own understanding of Politics, how can it understand The Theory of our own W.S. Incarnate?

ImadeUReadThis:
Bunp

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