If you have been keeping track in any capacity, you know that I live in the college section of the City of Pittsburgh ... in between the Pitt campus, the Carnegie-Mellon campus, and the Carlow campus ... as well as living a short drive away from Chatham, Point Park, and Duquesne Universities, as well as Allegheny County Community College.
And of course, I live in the Jewish section of Pittsburgh, three blocks away from the Tree of Life Synagogue which underwent an antisemitic massacre in 2018, while I was stationed in the Chicago Area.
All of this means that I live in the area where political activism and political opinions are made visually known. Well, there is a certain poster that circulated this year which states:
They want 1939.
Let's give them 1789.
Well, that poster omitted the final line to its logical conclusion which happens to be:
And it will yield for us Napoleon 1799.
The Assessment of it All
Hey. Why should I care? History has shown humanity that us Italians make for some pretty exciting emperors, where there's never a dull moment. And some of those Italian emperors were pretty sharp dressers, too.
All of this will simply be History Repeating Itself. It will simply be Nature balancing itself out, again. Of course, if you want to know the future, then study history. Start with the Italians. There is A LOT of history with Italians, for sure, even with Italians in America.
To think: The French got rid of a French king in exchange for an Italian Emperor. Good choice. Us Italians are just too fun to leave behind. So, arrivederci, baby. See you after your 1789 Party.
And have a nice day ... or evening ... or sunset ... or sunrise ... or six months of darkness.
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| Above is the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere, namely the University of Pittsburgh Cathedral of Learning. © The most excellent Patrick Anthony Pontillo, Italian Extraordinaire. |
