this has to be a troll post.
Captain Cook was an explorer, not a conqueror despite what the woke left believe. I get your point though, just not the best image example especially with all the fruit loops cutting down his statues of late believing he invaded Australia despite the fact he was dead 9 years before the arrival of the first fleet.
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Hmm I’ve thought about this too, like there’s no mystery anymore, there’s no unexplored lands with hidden treasures, etc. I actually don’t think it’s true, I think there ARE still mysteries and things we don’t know. I also believe it’s possible to derive the same level of pleasure those conquerers were getting through other means. And your job doesn’t necessarily have to be shitty, you can find something you actually enjoy. At the same time I feel you, like you can’t just get on a ship and explore the world, unless you have the money for it. However I do think there are things you can do now that you couldn’t do back then that could give you equal amounts of pleasure, and it could be something as simple as playing video games with your friends lol.
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I think this era enables greater internal exploration and conquest. We have more information at our fingertips than ever before and it can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Sometimes I think this era sucks too but I think letting go of things outside our control and focusing on our thoughts and actions is a good place to start. Even my last post on this thread I instantly regretted. It should not have bothered me, I should have let it go.
But even the external world,.there is still plenty to explore. Going on trips, hiking new areas. We’ll never be the first to discover anything and be famous for it but there’s still plenty to see.
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F—k that!
Let your very existence be an act of rebellion.
-Albert Camus [paraphrased]
We live on the cusp of widespread dystopia
It’s a privilege to live now in this s—t because we now have purpose to show the world fearlessness and power and feats that will shock the world, that no authoritarian regime can reign in; that no AI could ever replicate…
The meek need to see it. Be it.
You were called.
Be Great.
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I want to provide a counter argument to this, but I’m not living a life I can call my own yet.
I’ll agree that for a large majority of people, yeah they get pushed into the study, shitty job, misery life. But there’s so much to explore nowadays, more supportive resources, and less danger. You just have to find a way to break out of the indoctrination first.
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Sad to inform you, but what you imagine those times is just only 1-2% of world population, the rest of population did monotonous work. Oh, what it reminds? ah yes, our modern world.
For example, Alexander the Great’s army was about 40 thousand soldiers. Average Greek city had ~60 thousand population, and there were a numerous cities and villages. On the other hand, let’s take Achaemenid Empire: 50 million population and no more than 200 thousand soldiers - that’s not even 1%.
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I think you are simply missing adventure. I understand this.
Now, if you want to experience some real adventure, and I mean REAL REAL REAL ADVENTURE, adventure that is exciting beyond imagination and life changing beyond anything, then learn Astral Projection and explore the astral realms.
This way you also don’t need “to loot” anybody…
There is also help for this.
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I LOVE history to probably an unhealthy degree.
I still would never want to live in the past.
I would love to walk in the past, see all the great ancient and not so ancient cities, but without living there.
All kings and conquers had the very real threat of some random disease or infection which could kill you in horrifying ways.
At least a third of rulers met untimely deaths, often in horrific ways.
At the top, you never who to trust even your best friend, most trusted ally, wife, mistress or concubine could turn on a dime and backstab you (literally).
This doesn’t even cover a ton if tiny things we take for granted that they simply did not have.
This sounds like the classic fallacy of the “good ole days” I have a secret. Those days never happened.
I haven’t even started on how most pirates would kill for a simple middle class living in the United States today.
Do yourself a favor and read the stories of the ones who lost, the mediocre kings, the kings who did everything right, yet they still got the worst end of history, the kings who nobody talks about. It will cure that depression real fast.
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You stared blankly at me. “But all the people on earth…”
“All you. Different incarnations of you.”
“Wait. I’m everyone!?”
“Now you’re getting it,” I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.
“I’m every human being who ever lived?”
“Or who will ever live, yes.”
“I’m Abraham Lincoln?”
“And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,” I added.
“I’m Hitler?” You said, appalled.
“And you’re the millions he killed.”
“I’m Jesus?”
“And you’re everyone who followed him
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Go to the Jungle of Latin America
There you can be all of that and more, way way more, if you have what it takes
But it comes with a price
Are you sure you want to pay that price?
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This is beautiful
Do you have names to give me?
When i did astral projection it was the best and most fun experience ever, lucid dreams are also really fun
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If you want to read about kings during the fall of their kingdoms:
Harold II of Anglo-Saxons England (He has an incredible life and most of history talks about William the Bastard (conqueror))
The entire Vandal kings after Geiseric the Cruel -
The entire Ostrogothic Kings after Theoderic the Great.
If you want Empires: Western Rome after Commodus
The Rise and Fall of the Visigoths: They have a Rollercoaster of good and bad kings that’s very entertaining.
Another thing is pick your favorite conqueror and read about the kingdom after their reign. It usually completely falls apart. If not right away, it will.
The crusading states are a beautiful mess during the crusades.
The Merovingian dynasty of France after Clovis: Constant Infighting leads to eventual puppet kings.
The empire of Persia has a fascinating Rollercoaster of history.
The states after Alexander the Great
Basically read the entire story of a kingdom or Empire not just the greats of that kingdom.
You will find out that history tells better stories than fiction. Some fantastic tradegies are out there.
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Always curious who in history would be close to New Khan (excluding Genghis Khan)? Or Wanted Black (asking for a friend)?
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Love this question! These are the fun ones.
New Kahn easily has to be Mehemed II (the Conqueror) of the Ottoman Empire. He finally killed Rome when he captured Constaniople and that was only the begining of his reign. Oh and he has one of the most famous Harems.
As far as Wanted Black, Giacomo Casanova is the most obvious answer. Casinova is in the Webster Dictionary: (Noun) man known for seducing women and having many lovers
Another one for Wanted Black would be Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos of the Eastern Roman Empire before he became Emperor. He slept with many women of Emperor Manuel’s family just to piss him off. During a prison break he stopped just to have sex with his wife.
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There was/is a Netflix docu-fiction on Mehmed II battle for Constantinople. Epic stuff. Thanks for these 
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(Fatih Sultan) Mehmed II was very intelligent too,
one of my favourite Turkish ruler and when he conquered Istanbul he was just 21 years old
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