“The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025.

They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the murderous rage of a insatiable killer. Thus the map:

 

 

We forget who laid it out for us a lifetime ago, but civilization is inherently fragile, and can collapse in an instant. Everything is handed off from one generation to the next, one life to the next, and the chain only goes back a few thousand years. We haven’t been at this very long.

The friend who explained this to us was Jewish. He had some specific examples in mind.

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