From: buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk   
      
   On 7/19/2019 4:06 AM, Oh so rich & successful JTEM wrote:   
   >   gggg...@gmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   >> According to this:   
   >>   
   >> - The Athenians also hastened their demise by succumbing to what one   
   historian calls “a creeping vanity.” Eventually, they reversed their   
   open-door policy and shunned foreigners. Houses grew larger and more   
   ostentatious. Streets grew wider, the    
   city less intimate. People developed gourmet taste. The gap between rich and   
   poor, citizen and noncitizen, grew wider, while the sophists, hawking their   
   verbal acrobatics, grew more influential. Academics became less about pursuing   
   truth and more about    
   parsing it. The once vibrant urban life degenerated.   
   >   
   > Thems a lot of words for someplace they never visited, never   
   > saw, never heard or experienced in any way.   
   >   
   > Imagine reconstructing our attitudes & opinion from our garbage.   
   >   
   > That's what they're doing here with Athens.   
   >   
      
   Future archaeologists may wonder why, in out time, the rich were thin,   
   the poor were fat, and we thought the spirits of the dead were conducted   
   to the Underworld by small bears.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)