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FLPanhandle

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2. The thin veneer of civilization is easily stripped away

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Sep 25, 2017, 07:35 AM

Sep 2017

A few days without power and civilized law abiding folks become animals & barbarians.

Civilization is hideously fragile... there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ~C.P. Snow

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The thin veneer of civilization is easily stripped away FLPanhandle Sep 2017 #2

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