The Karma Chronicles, Swords to Plowshares Edition…
From (some of) the same folks who brought us America’s Army, “the official army game” and recruiting tool, a new– and very different– simulation, Virtual Peace, “the humanitarian assistance simulator”…
As we ruminate on radical juxtaposition, we might compose a birthday line or two for Quintus Horatius Flaccus– Horace– the Roman soldier and poet, born on this date in 65 BCE… Horace’s Satires, Epodes, Odes, and Epistles, have earned him a reputation akin to Virgil’s… He was in some ways the antithesis of yesterday’s honoree Cicero; an apologist for empire, Horace was Augustus’ Poet Laureate. He may have coined, but was in any case the first to use “carpe diem” in a recorded setting. And he offered this good advice: “Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.”
