farewell to academe

[Seth Ackerman]

	Brad DeLong wrote:

> Of course not. The trope of decline and decadence is an old one. More 
> than two millennia ago Roman aristocrats complained about the times 
> and the customs: how shocking it was that children no longer 
> respected their elders, that everyone was worshipping foreign goods, 
> and that a slave girl cost more than a sword.
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Yeah, and then Rome fell. 

Seth