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Remember, the actor is the modern iteration of the court jester aka the fool. As true now as it was then.

You know.

https://blogs.transparent.com/latin/being-an-actor-in-ancient-rome/

Salvete Omnes! After the Emmy’s this weekend, where we have seen actors and actresses honored and pampered, so we’re gonna be looking at the life of actors in Ancient Rome and just how different it was for them.

Ancient Roman plays were almost always performed during ludi (“games”). Because the Ancient Romans did not have weekends for times for relaxation or merriment games and festivals were the opportunities for them to relax and enjoy festivities, including the art of theater. Actors would perform tragedies and comedies for crowds along with music in the background, creating a lively and enthralling scene.

However, instead of honoring and respecting actors as the Greeks had, the Romans had a very different opinion of the acting profession. It might be difficult to imagine how Roman society, infamous for its indulgence and extravagance, would find a single profession as morally unsavory. Actors, in Roman society, were considered to hold a lower, dangerous status and were often avoided.

Ironically, the emperor Tiberius, definitely not a man known for his chaste nature, once urged those of high society and actors to avoid interacting with one another. Julian the Apostate would later prohibit pagan priests from attending theater so that the theater and actors did not receive any elevation in status because of their attendance.

Actors were often born into the profession, as was typical in Roman society where children usually took up the profession of their parents. The profession, however, was a very interesting one to take up. Actors, probably adding to their bad reputation, had license to behave very badly on stage and even mock politics.

If you’re familiar with the history of theatre in Europe these trends and patterns might seem familiar. Another trend was the avoidance of casting women in plays. In the early Republic, women did not work as actresses. However, in time, women took to the stage. One actress, Acte, even went on to win the favor of the emperor Nero and became one of his favorite concubines, proving that the place of actors and actresses in society was a strangely volatile one.

For all of this consideration given to the Ancient Roman actor, there were generally no permanent theaters in Rome where actors would perform until 55 B.C.E. This was because it was a common opinion that spending too much time at the theater was detrimental to a populace’s character.

Entertainment and drama were adored in Ancient Rome, but the performers of these entertaining feats were often belittled by higher society or perceived as morally unclean. Interestingly, this is a pattern of thought that continued in Europe for centuries and there may even be some traces of these sentiments in today’s society. Its always interesting for a historian to see how the past reflects the future.

I for one am deeply disappointed. Usually, a forum thread that has some celebrity's name as title means that he/she/it has assumed room temperature.

And let's not forget LeBron . . . . . .

McConaughey Is a Fuqking Idiot. Always has been.
Fuqk that Libertard POS.

I’m not sure but if I remember not too long ago here there was a thread about him. Iirc he wasn’t a true liberal and trended to the right. In my opinion if you’re against any restrictions on the 2A you aren’t a real conservative but MM wasn’t the “usual actor liberal activist” like his recent speech would indicate.

This is the pound of flesh that he’s obliged to give and it’s done in such grandiose style as to allow him to still be marketable in Hollywood.

I don’t know MM other than as an actor. But the words I heard him speak today were ok with me. He commented on the many aspects of our degraded cultural that could be worked on or improved — treating mental illness, hardening the schools, return of family values, needing red flag laws (this Uvaulde guy gave plenty warnings that were ignored) etc. — all of these problems have the Democrats finger prints all over them from the last sixty years (my words).

He commented on the hijacking of the 2nd amendment by these sociopathic shooters. He wasn’t anti-the 2nd.

And, where — ever — are the feckless Republicans?

That was just the BS he put out himself when considering a run for Texas governor.

He played the "not sure which party to align with" card... But we were not fooled by his word games.

Same thing Beta O'Roarke pulled when he entered the governor's race saying he "really wasn't after our guns after all" ... But he's flip flopped on that again too.

Scum.

PREZACTLY!!! Libertard SCUM 😡

I listened to his speech, did not glean any misspoken agenda. I thought his offering made some sense. Am I about diminishing the 2nd amendment? NO, not even he’ll NO! But what I heard made some sense. Perhaps others listened to a different speech or did not listen period. But, it was well offered. Made some sense and I have given it much thought.
NOW, I am sure that there are those on this forum that do not agree. That is fine. I make no bones about your opinions.
I am a hunter, sportsman that has been a firearm enthusiast for better than some on this forum have been alive. I know, first hand, what it is to loose a child. Not by gun violence, but by a young man that had his head up his anal cavity. My son died in a car accident. He was a passenger. I KNOW the pain.
Also, I do not own an AR15. Am I against common sense ownership of any firearm....NO! What I am angry about is the blasted shoot ‘em up games that portray killing as a game. Yes, it is protected by the 1st amendment. But, WTF? My rant. MTG

This part of the Libertard Dumbasses “speech” told me everything I need to know:

“ McConaughey argued "responsible gun owners are fed up by the Second Amendment" and encouraged "both sides see above the political problem at hand."
“ We start by making the right choices on the issue that's in front of us today. We start by making laws."

Apparently, he doesn’t understand the phrase:

“SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”

Fuqk him and the DemoRat’s. And anyone that doesn’t understand that phrase!

I guess he's become another actor on my FU list. Dwayne"The Rock" Johnson has been on there since he endorsed Bidumb.

Damn he's smart!

If only we'd had a law against murdering children...

So many tough guys around here can't see the forest for the trees. You act exactly like the progressive left.

And then there is this;

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-bulletin-heightened-threat-environment-violence.amp

Almost like,,,,

Never mind

Almost like they know in advance?

Well Barry, I aint commenting. Don’t wanna be confused with the tough guys.