“And once that happens, the moral descent is not dramatic at first. It’s weirdly normal. And that’s the creepy part. Everybody keeps mowing their lawns and posting vacation photos while the foundations liquefy beneath their feet.”
(The Dissenter) Rome had a strange smell near the end of its empire. Historians don’t really talk about that part. They write about military campaigns and collapsing currencies and corrupt emperors with grapes hanging from their fingers while boys danced in silk before them.
But I always wonder about the smell. Sweat baked into stone streets. Rotting figs in the alleyways. Smoke from pagan altars curling through open windows while the empire slowly dissolved into moral anarchy.
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