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What is Intelligence? 28
It looks at it blankly, it seems maybe it wants to know what it is, but it is
stumped, it has no advanced human brain, its efforts to seek further are
doomed to failure.
But in the movie, the godless or near godless Romans don’t want
Spartacus to be free, and to know and understand, and when he tries to
escape his slavery, they eventually send a huge army against him and kill
him.
The wily politician Gracchus played by Charles Laughton, has taught
Julius Caesar, who hovers in his loyalty been Gracchus, the Republican,
and Laurence Olivier’s Crassus, the Imperialist, and Caesar says to
Crassus:
“Well, at least Gracchus has taught me one thing – that Rome is the
mob(the people).”
But Crassus haughtily answers:
“No, you are wrong, Caesar. Rome is not the mob (the people). Rome is
an eternal thought in the mind of God. You must serve her. You must
worship her. You must abase yourself at her feet.”
So Crassus wins, and the society becomes a dictatorship, with a small
ruling elite, and everyone else is enslaved.
He is an alpha male, lesser men fight to the death for him for his
amusement and that of his courtesan like beautiful but sadistic and
bloodthirsty female consorts. Enemies (i.e. opponents) of the state are
rounded up and imprisoned or executed. The helpless weak, the old and
the disabled, for whom there is no longer anybody to speak up for, die of
starvation, poverty or neglect.
Crassus’s Roman elitist society is that of the survival of the fittest, it is
our modern society in disguise, and is the direct outcome of the
Darwinian view of humanity, untempered by any morality.
His “morality” is only one of respect for the high and mighty, of the
strong and cruel, like himself.
His Roman gods are even more strong and cruel than he is, which is why
he respects and worships them.