Reincarnated as the Indy?
For it has always been a custom with our nation, as it is at present, to be impotent in repelling foreign foes, but bold and invincible in raising civil war, and bearing the burdens of their offences: they are impotent, I say, in following the standard of peace and truth, but bold in wickedness and falsehood....
But besides this vice, there arose also every other, to which human nature is liable and in particular that hatred of truth, together with her supporters, which still at present destroys every thing good in the island; the love of falsehood, together with its inventors, the reception of crime in the place of virtue, the respect shown to wickedness rather than goodness
(On the Ruin of Britain, by Gildas the Wise, written in about 550 AD) Obviously everything has been All Our Fault for a very long time....
posted by Brituncula @ 9:25 AM
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