re: #492 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

They mostly stayed united because they were worried Alexander would come back and smash the fuck out of them,

So they would have continued on being a united empire as long as Alexander had lived. And then we get Tonybee’s thesis of what the world would look like if Alexander lived until old age. And what happened after Alexander’s old age death would be different than the world around us today. Maybe more advanced? America’s discovery happened way earlier? Library of Alexandria still around? Steam power from Hero’s engine becomes a tool of empire? Etc. Tonybee’s work is out of print but there are lot’s of books that riff on the “What if” aspects of history. Check them out.

My education is American. I work and live for times in Europe. I had a 100% American public school education - graduated from CUNY - thank you taxpayers! America has not been right in the head since they voted Reagan in. Maybe they are sobering up these days.