is the Colosseum! It‘s breathtaking and paradoxical. To think that there is now a Subway station next to one of the oldest remnants of antiquity is absolutely amazing.
We walked around from one end of the city today to the other. Starting at the Colosseum we then went to the Roman Forums and then to Saint Peter‘s Dome.
There really has never been a city quite like Rome. Maybe there never will be again. The Romans invented the City. It would take another idea completely, another form or an „uncity“ if you will, in order to be comparable to the significance of the change, which the Romans brought to human sociological development.
It‘s definitely possible that something like a new „better“ form of the city could be reached. But something altogether different? The Romans reached a form of deity with all its problems.
The biggest being:
They found there was already a greater power at work in their game. Today the city feels like a stage for puppets. As though there once was power here but no longer. Other people here on the trip might say something else. A lot of people find Rome to be the last standing refuge of Christendom.
When they‘re here they feel the weight of the power of God. Either I‘m not very spiritual or just insensitive, but all I feel is emptiness, which has quite a weight of its own.
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