Post APaqCxK116ASgnV0oC by simon@mastodon.star-one.org.uk
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 (DIR) Post #APaAkig7lqtt2pG2ka by virginiaheffernan@journa.host
       2022-11-14T03:48:40Z
       
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       How I'm beginning to feel about Twitter and Meta:“You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.” — Doris Lessing
       
 (DIR) Post #APaqCxK116ASgnV0oC by simon@mastodon.star-one.org.uk
       2022-11-14T09:27:54Z
       
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       @virginiaheffernan @davidallengreen — See also: the Soviet Union; I remember going to bed one night, the Soviet Union had existed since forever and would continue to exist forever, and then the next morning the Soviet Union no longer existed. Nothing lasts forever, no nation state no political alliance no corporation no social structure; we would do well to remember the fragility of seemingly immutable structures.
       
 (DIR) Post #APaqCycUBuXKiN9HEm by biffvernon@mastodon.online
       2022-11-14T09:51:35Z
       
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       @simon @virginiaheffernan @davidallengreen  Indeed, but it turns out that some ideas of empire, originating in medieval  times, have outlasted the Tsars and the Soviet era, and are now thriving amongst the current rulers in Moscow. There's been shape-shifting but there has also been persistence.