It doesn't matter whether you read Gibbon, Asimov or "Records of the Three Kingdoms" (三國志), one message is conveyed clearly across all three of them:
It takes a good long time for an empire to fall before anyone notices.
By that point it's unstoppable.
Mark Pesce /
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2023-08-06 03:49:39
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