What Is the Cynical Part of This?

Kagan: We don't know enough about them, and can fill it up. It's like an endless well wad you could fill with whatever goodies do on about the the contemporary moment. But then there's just that there's particular stories at about antiquity that have to do with kind of different forms of imperial greatness which graft beautifully on to the kinds of justificatory stories that contemporary imperialists want to tell. I mean, my really cynical view of this is that the centrality of these a kind of interpretation of the classics for the main stream, sort ofa literati.