Step by step they were led to things of idle decadence – the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilization, when it was but a part of their servitude. And so, the gullible natives eventually came to call their slavery ‘culture’.
Roman Emperors
Whoa, cutting and painful. Summary of the times. Thanks, Koyote.
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Reminds me of my book characters, before they woke up (see adsat side).