re: TulaneLSU's Top 10 signs of a civilization in ruin in Seattle

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He’s our ignatious J Reilly mixed with Will Hunting.

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I get more of a Tennessee Williams vibe

“This is an emptiness of something that has never been full.”

Great line, bravo.

Emperipolesis, excellent.

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we shall be the first nation to drive itself into oblivion with over-educated, coddled malcontents leading the headlong charge to Chaosville.

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Unfortunately, all too prophetic.

I've seen the exact same things in Birmingham, ATL, pretty much every city has been experiencing this shite since the lockdowns. A 25% unemployment with half the population thinking we are all going to die has lead to some nasty results. I suggest you all read about the plague of athens.

Accounts of the Athenian plague graphically describe the social consequences of an epidemic. Thucydides' account clearly details the complete disappearance of social morals during the time of the plague:

...the catastrophe was so overwhelming that men, not knowing what would happen next to them, became indifferent to every rule of religion or law.”

—?Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War[7]
This perceived impact of the Athenian plague on collective social and religious behavior echoes accounts of the medieval pandemic best known as the Black Death,[8] although scholars have disputed its objective veracity in both instances, citing a historical link between epidemic disease and unsubstantiated moral panic.[9][10]