<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I am possibly the most ignorant person re history that you know, but I do know that King George III (?), the mad king of Revolutionary days, made all of his advisors cringe. But of course, we now know that he was insane, so............</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 10:38 AM Will Steinberg <<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">JKC,<div><br></div><div>I don't think you're saying anything that hasn't been said many times already, sadly. I agree with WFW; we are squarely in the Twilight Zone right now and any previously established metrics are not going to be very helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>If I had to go on a hunch, I would say that an answer is much more likely to come from studying ancient rather than modern history. While we may not have a modern precedent for understanding this clusterfuck, I'm fairly sure something like this must have happened in the past 5,000 years of recorded history. Just a matter of finding the most applicable happening.</div></div>
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