“Basically, through a really harsh approach, he established two hundred years of world peace,” Zuckerberg explained to writer Evan Osnos. “What are the trade-offs in that? On the one hand, world peace is a long-term goal that people talk about today. Two hundred years feels unattainable.” That was the CliffsNotes version of Pax Romana, with only a glancing acknowledgment of the price of that peace, including subjugation, colonization, and so, so much death. Zuckerberg seemed to grok the downsides, noting the era “didn’t come for free.” He even admitted that Augustus had to “do certain things”
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