having watched and considered the TV presentations of the inauguration of Vladimir Putin to the President of Russia (even possibly until 2024), and comparing it the inauguration of US presidents (the last one being President Obama)...it seems to me that gravitas -- if it ever existed, in Rome or later -- is absent from our times. neither Obama nor Putin, nor for examples the Pope or Russian Orthodox Patriarch...have much gravitas of person. and this a true reflections of our societies, cultures and mentalities.
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