Contra on Nostr: The first thing a declining culture loses is its ability to feel someone else's pain. ...
The first thing a declining culture loses is its ability to feel someone else's pain. Its laws and manners can hold on for a while after that, but they're running on borrowed credit. Barbarism is just the bill coming due.
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