Re:Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017)
by Simon_O_Rourke on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:52AM
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> Anyone who says the modern world is a horror show has no idea how good they have it.
The modern world is still a horror show. We've just dialed back the barbarity from 100 to 98. Only now we tend to know more about what's going on in the world. And even then you can turn off the tragedy and suffering on the nightly news and happily watch Jeopardy!
And to misquote Gibbon - "our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery".
The modern world is still a horror show. We've just dialed back the barbarity from 100 to 98. Only now we tend to know more about what's going on in the world. And even then you can turn off the tragedy and suffering on the nightly news and happily watch Jeopardy!
And to misquote Gibbon - "our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery".