“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold…” –William B. Yates
It doesn’t have to be World War III. Or the plague, or an asteroid slamming into our planet. Civilization can trickle away in little drips and drabs. Ask any Hittite.
Here was one of our mornings, some years ago.
All the frozen food at our supermarket had been allowed to melt.
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So we went home, and found a car that we didn’t recognize in our parking lot. We pay to park there. This car didn’t look like its owner paid for anything. A man and a woman lay sleeping in the front seat. By and by they woke up and went away. We did not know who they were. Maybe they didn’t know, either.
Things are getting strange.