sometimes I wonder

[tielan]

Did the citizens of the Roman Empire imagine that "things could never go back to the way they used to be, back in times of chaos and unrest, before the Empire bound everything together"? Could they even imagine the next couple of hundred years without an Empire, where all kinds of knowledge was lost, and all kinds of advances were forgotten?

Comments

[ninja007]

I also had that thought, but also with the contemporary circumstances.

[tielan]

The prompt for my thoughts was the present circumstances.

Largely because I keep seeing people saying "love always wins" but the hard part of that truth is that sometimes it take 500 years to actually do so.

[ninja007]

I have always studied anthropology/archaeology and I see it all the time. One of the first things in the archaeology community said after frump started running for president, was that history is repeating itself. They were frightened. How long did it take to correct the damage hitler did? About 40 years.