[EP4] The Consequences of Europe's Chosen Civilizational Myth Being Rome | Carthage - Rome Series

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]When I made my video about what Rome did to Carthage in 146 BC, I literally only made it because I was feeling sad about being a Carthaginian girl and then having no content or anything to look at because literally everything was wiped out and I literally just went to basically mourn and be a sad fan girl.

[00:00:15]And then like all these Rome fan boys came to the funeral and started being like, "How how dare you mourn the dead?

[00:00:24]The dead must be guilty. Our identity is threatened." And I was like, "Oh, no, I was just trying to you know like mourn the civilization that's totally gone." Like I didn't mean to offend. And then they went and told Tunisians to their face that their ancestors are baby killers and deserve to be genocided. And I was like, "Okay, this is not cute anymore. I'm going full Viking on you, right?" They kind of took my being sad and holding a funeral for Carthage as argumentative weakness, but it wasn't. It was like a hymn. Do they go into Sunday morning church and then challenge everyone there to a rap battle? No, cuz that's ridiculous. Like what kind of person does that? And then it made me really think like why can't they let go of Rome? I don't think anyone else has this problem, right?

[00:01:08]Like if you ask anyone else around the world, they can be like, "Yeah, our ancestor did some bad things. Maybe we don't talk much about it. We don't build a monument for it, but the least we can do is we stay quiet when other people want to mourn the people who got hurt."

[00:01:22]But no, it's like if you say anything bad about Rome, if you say anything good about Carthage, it's like you have offended my 75 grandpas. And I'm like, "How?" And the only way that's possible is because the European foundational myth of Rome, the myth of Rome is based off of a murder, and that murder is a murder of Carthage. And if you tell them that this basis is murder, then their entire identity, that chain of thinking that from Athens to Rome to the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, like that torch that was passed down that let them think that they're superior to everyone else is then false because how can they justify colonialism then, right? If the Roman myth was based off of a murder, it was based off of a murder.

[00:02:08]And it was like, well, that's why they were so rude at the funeral. But anyway, I feel like this may be just be like a Roman heartline thing because I feel like the Anglos, like I'm Anglo, just don't have this problem. Like Anglos are very like common law. Flying frequently with these Roman fanboys, they use like a very civil law type of thinking where it's based off your pedigree. When Americans open business meetings and they ask for evidence, that's like normal meeting, right? But when like you do that to like someone from like the Roman side, from like the civil law side, they get offended because how dare you challenge my pedigree? I am a Roman senator who owns a lot of fundia. You can't challenge me on material things. What do you mean I need to prove my points? And then for the Anglos, this is very normal. This is just a very Anglo thing to do. We pin down the position and then we ask for the evidence and we're very procedural.