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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (16841)	8/7/2000 5:46:44 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	of 17770

Byzantine Europe vs. Roman America.... Here's yet another paper showing us how striking are the similarities between today's US/EU relationship and the Mediterranean rivalries of yore: wwics.si.edu To update it to mirror the present world, all we have to do is replacing Byzantium with Europe and Rome/Western Europe with the U.S.A. --and Christianity with Democracy.... We can even think of the Kosovo war as of a modern crusade. I've pastiched the following snippet: The state and the church were fused into one indivisible whole. . . . This "Caesaropapism" had no equal in the West, where secular rule and papal authority had never been joined. The European court was the hub of a vast centralized administration run by an army of bureaucrats. . . . The despotic nature of the state machine was self-evident in its oriental ceremonies. "Brussels" became a byword for total subservience, secretiveness, and intrigue. . . . The Byzantine eurocracy practiced unremitting paternalism in social and economic affairs. Trade was controlled by state officials, who exacted a straight 10 percent tax on all exports and imports.

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