Post B2fDyIA6utuTHLPY7U by Jonny@annihilation.social
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 (DIR) Post #B2fAr4f4PiMtW9l78S by Bernard@friends.ravergram.club
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       📖 In the late Roman Empire there were plenty of larpers for the Caesars of old, plenty of libs saying Rome was for all who have civitas, and plenty of conservatives in the old Senate orating complaints like they tweet today.The Goths saw all this, and in disgust, ended it all.What you have to understand is, it wasn't wrath nor pride that stirred them to act. It was pity. Pity for the Rome that was, and what it had become. Pity in realizing they could do things better.When a generation looks at this empire today, and feels the same, then things will change. Wrath, larping, libbing, arrogance, pride - these did nothing. It was a strong man's pity that ended the decadence of Rome.https://www.attalus.org/translate/orosius7B.html📎 Aelthemplaer
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fAvFLsbnuXpdlwgK by amerika@annihilation.social
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       @Bernard It's amazing how fast prosperity leads to democracy, equality, atomization, socialist, and diversity, which then kills the civilization from the brain outward.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fD8Xl1gjhuaZ0Ddg by Bunsen@poa.st
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       @Bernard It will still take igniting a fire in peoples' hearts to propel them to action.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fD8YE5wexY2ibQwq by Jonny@annihilation.social
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       @Bunsen @Bernard That fire is the removal of bread and circus.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fDLaUgpEKiqAa5zc by Bunsen@poa.st
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       @Jonny @Bernard The bread is getting stale and the circuses are falling apart.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fDMHsxUsIPPtGaI4 by Jonny@annihilation.social
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       @Bunsen @Bernard Soon!!!
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fDyIA6utuTHLPY7U by Jonny@annihilation.social
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       @Bernard Italy is currently dying demographically. They are basically giving away free vacant houses in the country side villages, just like in Japan. YouTube it. It’s cray cray what you can get.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fFAjwDZXXkqyPdKK by Bernard@friends.ravergram.club
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       @amerika Decadence
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fFFbffjfkef6zgSu by amerika@annihilation.social
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       @Bernard I think it is the nature of civilization to self-destruct by becoming inwardly focused thanks to human individualism. Over time this leads to the decadence you describe, but more importantly degeneration, or the loss of traits found in nature that are useless in society, like thinking.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fI2MWp1ZxdnOEMEK by Bernard@friends.ravergram.club
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       @Jonny Sadly, this is happening all over the anglosphere as the effect of low birth rates materializes.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fI8Z5rDk9UVFZl9U by Jonny@annihilation.social
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       @Bernard If you ever want too get off of Mastadon, you should come too Annihilation Social.Or at least have an alt account here.