The Forum is next to the Colosseum. The workers were on strike on Friday – Friday in the Forum, not Colosseum – it was Thursday for Colosseum.
If Douglas Adams thinks that we follow the Survival-Inquiry-Sophistication evolution (also known as the How-What-Where question): why were the Romans more sophisticated than us? What ever happens with details in architectures? I mean, look at IKEA design: simple and plain, yet loved by many. Sophistication takes time (imagine: choosing what to wear for a dinner). May be with the advance of technology that saves us so much time (imagine: internet, television), we actually have no time to do anything else. And how can PC save time, compared to typewriter, if MS Word decides to crash.But that’s not important if you have Rick Steve’s guidebook. It tells you have to re-acquire your lost time by skipping one-hour line for Colosseum by buying your ticket in Palatine Hill (3 min walk from Colosseum, in the Forum).
Instead of building Colosseum, we are building boxing ring (to be precise: boxing square) and wrestling octahedron. Or if you are British, you build a football stadium (football: also known as soccer in certain country for unknown reasons). We exchange swords with boxing gloves, spears with folding chairs and lions with Hooligans. Yet, why complain if there are so many people wish to be in my position. Sunny days in Rome, great pizza and to-kill-for gelato (try Del Palma one block north of the Pantheon).
