HISTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD:
The Observer
“Every
society strives for perfection. This is the root of all evil. When a
society is young and ambitious, like the Republic of the United
Netherlands in the 16th
century,, there was a lot of change, exploration and improvement.
There will come a golden age. Filled with inventions and social,
cultural, artistic and economic growth. When borders are reached, the
Netherlands were defeated by Great Britain, a period of polishing
appears. Identity is formalised and a class society is formed.
Mobility between classes disappears and you need wars to get some air
to breath. In the meantime education becomes less and less important.
Money and wealth becoming the new targets. How you got your money,
was not important. Many of the beautiful houses, boarding the
waterways of Amsterdam, were build with money earned in the
slavetrade or exploiting the inhabitants of Indonesia. Western-Europa
had colonised the whole world. England, France, Portugal, the
Netherlands and Spain were empires, where the sun never set.
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