Remus was the good guy

>Remus was the good guy
>Gets killed by his thieving asshole of a brother
>Romans love this
What the fuck was up with the Roman origin story?

It was a cultural way to deal with "the good guy" syndrome.

Violent and primitive disease ridden tribes from the east were killing more peaceful and constructive tribes from south-europe. So these myths were made so people could start adopting their savagery, as they constructed civilization.

The savage tribes were the "aryans", the constructive tribes were the neolithic farmers.

Romans had a fucked up sense of morality where might made right but at the same time they wanted to seem like they had a very law and order oriented society.

Neolithic Europeans weren't peaceful. It's a meme. We have evidence of mass graves and exterminations of whole settlements before the arrival of Indo-Europeans. And it's not like the Etruscans were exactly peaceful pacifists.

The based Indo-Europeans raped the shit out your pathetic cuck neolithic farmers.

>Romans love this

Really ? I remember reading roman text where they criticize Romulus for this ; Especially one who compares Augustus with him. Because Octavian originally wanted to get the name "Romulus" (And got Augustus instead), one writer (I don't remember which one) compares Augustus with Romulus in a favorable light ; Notably the fact that Augustus wishes for women to be chaste while Romulus went and captured many of them for his mercenaries, founding Rome.

Romulus was victorious in battle, that means he gets to keep the spoils.
People in the Iron ages were cruel dicks to each other. In virtually all primitive pagan ethical traditions, vengeance slaying was considered the noblest act a man could preform.

>3118
The based Muslims raped the shit out of your pathetic Europeans.

Roman history and myth tended to be a nudge and a Wink "don't fuck with us" to other powers and tribes in the region and was pretty much made up since all actual record was burned with the city during the first sack

The idea being, this is where we come from, this is who we are, we will fucking murder you and steal your women if you cross us so let's be friends or else

>>Remus was the good guy
Based on what? The only noteworthy thing about him was that he was a dick while his brother was marking up the city boundaries.

> why did Octavianus choose Augustus instead of Romulus
Romulus was a king, and roman didn't want a king. Caesar himself was killed because a group of senators feared that he was going to be king.
Augustus means "augmented", still a senator but a little more powerful than other senators. After the pax augusta, he ruled the most problematic regions of the empire (with an army), while other senators could rule peaceful regions (no army needed - budget cuts - no army under senators' and proconsuls' control). Augustus ruled as a king, but romans didn't consider him as a threat.

He did less evil shit than Romulus.

Yeah, because he was dead. That's not a statement on his character.

These are the same people who think it's manly as fuck to rape another man (as long as he is not a citizen)

About 95% correct

Augustus means “majestic” or literally “the increaser”. The point is that he had no permanent position within the Roman government (aside from Pontifex Maximus which in the grand scheme of things is like being the food and beverage manager at a shady mafia run casino) and that he was just a concerned private citizen preserving the Roman state from the scourge of change. The fact that he lived in a modest house and took the humble title “first among equals” is a testament to his character as a ruler, staying in the shadows, assuaging the now powerless senators, pretending like he wasn’t Rome’s new autocrat.

>mass graves
thats wasted energy tho
you forget how they're the descendants of invaders of Aeneas just like the spartans

Romans just really like the idea of "fuck off don't touch muh wall, I don't care if you're family I'll kill you if you touch muh wall"

>evil
go fuck yourself retard

Romans loved the idea of the clever or cunning being the winner, because most of the human population was at a point of consciousness where they trusted few and allowed others to box them into servitude, living under specific rules and obligations.

They approved of their ideal, being cunning/clever and their perception of winning at the social hierarchy. If you look at much of humanity nowadays, it's honestly not much different besides the availability of amenities in some places and the openness to believe in the good.

Look at libtards, SJW's, (+)3rd Wave feminists, conservacucks, politicians... and then the ideal of the common person, the average of the majority of humanity, is to outwit everyone and come out on top. Sure, in public people "say" they want to be the good guy or the hero, but people always harbour that inkling of "I want, for me."

Combining that with the most effective propaganda for the time period (memes) and social engineering methods explained decades ago, it's not so difficult to see why someone like Trump became president. As much as people hate on him, a lot of people all over the world aspire to be that brazen, outspoken, crass, brutal, and still come out on top. Yeah, people say he's a dumbass who was given most of what he had at the start, but he lost everything several times (up to billions, at least 3 separate instances) and recovered. I don't see many people from MENSA running things or recovering from setbacks like that.

Similar to Griffith & Trump, Romulus did nothing wrong. The values of the few who question things tend to be so far removed from what's being questioned that questioners perceive the subject matter as "fucked up." In reality, that's what was valued by a lot of people.

>TL;DR the ages-old dichotomy of the Moral Absolute (the ideal good guy hero, the right hand path, service to the world) v. the Moral Relative (the manipulative bastard anti-hero, the left hand path, service for the self)

good post

Remus had it coming. He couldn't accept the fact Romulus saw a dozen good omens sent by the Gods themselves, this after Romulus saved his ass from the Albani.

Don't forget the Rape of Sabine women.

More like the cucking of the Sabine Men

Afrocentrist: look Romulus and Remus was black !1!

This was Ovid in his Fasti.

>Romans loved the idea of the clever or cunning being the winner, because most of the human population was at a point of consciousness where they trusted few and allowed others to box them into servitude, living under specific rules and obligations.

just like italians
oh wait