chris hemsworth is like a DnD character whose class 100% does not require a high charisma stat but he put it as his highest stat anyways like “hmm I think it will be useful (:” so he just walks around as a muscle-bound brawler who can also inexplicably get anything he wants from anyone by smiling at them
Him and Terry Crews
Terry Crews: high-level fighter who also multiclassed into bard, for some reason.
Chris Hemsworth: that barbarian who loves to knit.
Hugh Jackman: high level bard who was forced to take on barbarian when the party didn’t have a tank and now just wants to sing but he’s been the tank for so long it’s anyone sees him as.
I’m someone who studies history for a living and someone who is living though history. And the history we are living through feels — to me, and I suspect to you — like we are living though some sort of big shift in the way the world works. There are environmental crises, political crises, and economic crises approaching right now that threaten to change a lot about our way of life. I wouldn’t be surprised if the period we are living through right now looks to later historians like the moment when the ground began to move. And the people of the future will probably look at our time and think that whatever happens in the next decade or so was inevitable. They will probably look at us and wonder why we didn’t see where things are going — or, if we did see, why we didn’t do anything about it.
So I started to wonder — what did it feel like at the end of other eras? How did people react to and cope with the fact that their societies were under great strain? How did those societies change — did it happen all at once or slowly? This blog will be an exploration of that idea.
I’m trying a new project in addition to this one – you can see the general idea in the first post above. I’m starting with a look at the fall of the Roman Republic and then will move on to a number of other historical moments when things started to fall apart. If you’re interested, give it a follow! Thanks!
