How sad that people gazed upon one of the greatest achievements in history and took a fucking hammer to it. An earthly representative of God in ancient Egypt came nowhere close. A Roman Emperor in 300 couldn’t witness it. I met a traveller from an antique land (poet’s varied way of saying ‘ancient’) Who said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works.’ Analysis. A king in 1400 couldn’t even see this level of food. On the base of the statue is written (translated), ‘King of Kings am I, Ozymandias. The food available is in greater variety and abundance than any society ever produced in all of human existence. It concerns the discovery of the tomb, and I found it on Time's site I think. Here's some more text quoted from some page I saved when I was looking into all this. This existed on the same planet where Soviet peasants waited hours to buy their allocation of bread. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass any of my works. Being the best in the world at something that hardly anyone wants you to do any longer is a. It’s normal law abiding capitalists enjoying the fruits of their labor. By their feet is inscribed My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings/Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.) Second, the irrelevance of past performance to future performance when everything about the context in which you’re performing has changed. There are no blue haired masked freaks protesting out front. Do you notice there are no police at the doors? No EBT cards? The coolers run on unlimited uninterrupted power. ![]() This is the culmination of a society that has its shit together. This society, 51 years ago, provided all of this food not to elites with good social scores but to average peons! The average peons drove in with big Detroit iron cars, bought as much or as little as they wanted, and drove away. Their wall mounted telephones don’t have touch tone and long distance is expensive enough it’s reserved for special occasions. Btw, Ozymandias is one of my favourite Shelley. This is a society that has black and white TV. Kingdom of the Sands - Archaeology Magazine Archive I find the Garamantes one of the most fascinating Ancient Kingdoms.9 posts They are as fascinating as the Maniots. This isn’t a society recently created out of technology and unicorn subsidies. Reflect on how amazing and miraculous such things really are. Park your ass down and look upon the mundane with new eyes: Here’s a video of a grocery store in 1971. Like a fish that can’t see water, most Americans (Westerners?) don’t notice. ![]() Y’all may be forgiven for thinking it a pointless digression but I have always been delighted with cheap plentiful food. In my story I went off on a tangent about grocery stores.
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