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Hortensis

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2. Yes. It takes a lot to destabilize a nation, but
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 10:33 AM
Aug 2016

reality is that we people in modern societies all depend for our lives on highly complex, highly interdependent structures that can fail. Even here in the country few grow enough food to even begin to sustain themselves.

Syria, Egypt, Venezuela, and so on. I am not more accustomed to working plumbing and supermarkets filled with abundance than urban residents there were.

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