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Is this the end of history?

29 June 2020

5:04 AM

29 June 2020

5:04 AM

Midway through Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, there occurs this exchange between two characters:

‘“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.”’

The process of civilizational bankruptcy takes a similar course. Casual, seemingly isolated attacks on the fabric of civilization feel at first like so many harmless insect bites.

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