and his friends, the tech billionaires,
may own nearly everything a billionaire
could think to want. But what this new
hyper-weathy generation do not have
is the what Roman Generals and Emperors
knew was very necessary: their persomal auriga,
the servant who was trusted to follow
the leaders as they were cheered on
by the crowds to whisper in their ears
phrases like 'Remember you are not a god',
'Look behind you remember you are a man',
You are not Jupiter*', 'Fame is fleeting'
and finally 'Momento mori', to remind
the great to limit how they were worshiped
by the masses from making them delusional.
*Jupiter was the Supreme Roman deity
for the sky, light, and for thunder.
He oversaw the laws, and social order.
He protected the Roman state.
and was depicted carrying a thunderbolt.
He was associated with the eagle.
As the Son of Saturn and Ops,
he was brother to Juno (his consort),
Vesta, Ceres, Neptune, and Pluto.
He overthrew his father, Saturn, to lead the Pantheon.
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