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Aristus

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1. I think that's a very valid, and frightening, view of the current danger we're in.

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 06:35 PM

Mar 2025

Hopefully, I think it may not entirely factor in the human capacity for rebuilding and restoring.

I was reminded of a photo in one of my (many, many) books on World War II. Russians helping to re-build Stalingrad after one of the most horrifyingly deadly and destructive battles in history got the city going again in an astonishingly short period of time. The picture is of a telephone lineman testing a connection he has just restored. The phones in Stalingrad were working again within just a few days after the German surrender. There was a lot more to it, obviously; but people will work very hard to return to a sense of normality after a period of devastating chaos.

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