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		Gravityloss 84 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Who Cares Era I wonder if this is how it felt in Rome or Byzantium or various other places in the years leading up to collapse.

bee_rider 84 days ago [–]

IIRC the Romans had a cultural meme of mythologizing their past. So they probably did feel like this on the way down. But also on the way up.

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