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people's lives got nasty, brutish, short - but i don't think there was any real concept that things were black-swan-level disordered, that the former western roman empire was undergoing a process of disintegration. we project too much unitary stability onto the past, too modern political concepts
May 8, 2025, 3:34 AM
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