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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (497715)	8/28/2022 12:35:45 PM
From: abuelita	1 Recommendation Recommended By Doo Respond to of 542214

you provide some of the most well written, well thought out and intelligent posts one can read on this forum imho. clapping.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (497715)	8/28/2022 1:09:03 PM
From: epicure	2 Recommendations Recommended By koan Terry Maloney Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542214

That is a fascinating family history you have. When I was in law school for my ancient law class I worked with a classics professor on ancient Greek law. It was as complex as anything we have today, with schemes for underwriting sea voyages (for example)- the insurance of cargo being very, very important to sea merchants. We have amassed the technology to temporarily produce enough food and heat and water to see to the needs of a vast industrial civilization- but we borrow from the future to do it, and once we cannot provide food and water, let alone shelter and climate control, our civilization will cease to function and we go back to the stone age. It takes a long time to restart a civilization after knowledge has been lost. You see it time and again as civilizations bubbled up and then were destroyed. That's what the poem Ozymadias is all about to me.