the dichotomy that really knocks me on my ass is the black death, most parts of europe lost what like 20-40%
and the feeling of apocalypse that entailed remains to this day in the cultural artifacts from the period
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the horror is maybe more abstract without having experienced it but it still remains, one image search for "plague art" away
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now compare to >90% wiped out by disease in the americas, an event the culture-feeling of which has been completely eradicated
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