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Nothing makes sense anymore, the entire world just feels fake and incredibly tense. I wish I could go back in time and ask the Romans and Byzantines if they had a similar feel before their empires' collapse. People say "don't watch the news" but we're all just passengers on a derailing train, and it's hard not to look on the window. What are we headed towards? Will things get better afterwards? When will things make sense again? When will people be kind again?

Good discussions yesterday, wanna keep it up. Favorite takes so far:

>Everything is always collapsing and being remade in different forms. Chaotic reformation is the constant in history. It is easy to lament that things do not remain the same but hard to adapt to what is now. Are things going to be difficult? Absolutely. Will it be as bad as the thirty years war or the mongolian invasion, or the fall of Ur? Hell, maybe. Probably not, though. People on an individual level aren't nearly as dangerous as they used to be.

>ask the Romans and Byzantines if they had a similar feel before their empires' collapse. You generally can't pinpoint the moment an empire collapses at the time. Some warn of a collapse generations before things start going bad, others deny a collapse has happened even after the barbarians have looted the palace and set fire to the vineyards. By the time most well-learned people of the empire know that a collapse has occurred, it has already been replaced by a successor empire (or descended into tiny warring kingdoms)

Whitepills welcome. We can navigate the world together.

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This isn't a downturn though, every week a new report comes out indicating truly unprecedented numbers. Not even Rome fell this fast.