Ever feel like your dreams

Ever feel like your dreams and aspirations have been crushed for eternity? Like someone was just trying to keep you down?

I found this here after Grant told me he'd heard it in his World Civ class.

Dear Karl and others, The story of the salting of Carthage is indeed a myth. Personally I had long suspected so. I had read statements by many modern authors repeating the story of the sowing of salt in Carthage's fields, but no one ever quoted the primary source. I even read somewhere that it was only a ritual cursing, a mere handful of salt scattered. Serge Lancel (_Carthage, A History_. Translated by Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995 (French edition 1992).), however, shows that the story is a myth. He states that the creation of the myth was a two-stage process. First, in the nineteenth century Niebuhr introduced the image of Scipio Aemilianus driving a plough through the ruins of Carthage. About the salt itself Lancel states (p. 429): "The episode of the salt scattered on the soil first saw light through the pen of B. L. Hallward at the beginning of this century in the _Cambridge Ancient History_, and seems to have had its origin in the Bible, where we see in the book of Judges (9:45) Abimelech sowing salt on the town of Sichem that he had destroyed." Regards, Tom

how upsetting