apocalypse has always been a hopeful idea because assumes the moment everything goes to hell can be pinpointed and you'll be around to see
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you can go back as far as you like. trajan brought the empire to its greatest extent but hadrian and aurelius spent their reigns retrenching
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and when less sober and competent men found themselves at the head of such a thing the land fell to chaos
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by this logic trajan's rule would be the height of the empire in the same way that 2007 was the height of the mortgage industry
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hell, blame the marian reforms for making the legions a political bloc and the feminizing influence of greek culture eroding mos maiorum
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a young culture may emerge from the ashes of our civilization but we probably won't be around to see it
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Eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, obviously.
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No, plague of st cyprian This isn't helpful, your point stands
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