[Litost]

Do you have any further info on this "one of the complaints of the Roman empire in its twilight years was that everyone wanted to write a book".

I'm curious about some of the seemingly slightly oddball signs of late stage civilisation collapse and I'd not seen this one mentioned before?

[all2]

Ah. I am perpetuating a meme that is almost a century old. :D

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/22/world-end/