#decline

[madeleineengland]

Sadly this is true

[nemfrog]

North American passenger railway routes in the 1930s. Social studies, intermediate grades. 1938.

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From a textbook uploaded by LexW

[unbfacts]

Ireland is the only country in the world with a smaller population today than it had in 1800.

[fanfanlemoko]

« Une pensée victorieuse ne peut réussir que si elle se pose à contre-courant d’un ordre déjà en déclin. »

— Guillaume Faye, "L'Archéofuturisme. Techno-science et retour aux valeurs ancestrales.", 1998.

[painedandconfusedsblog]

Adjusting to a new quality of life isn’t a mindset shift it’s a slow, disorienting loss of reference points

[tilbageidanmark]

USA Funeral Plates are sold at Walmart

[convergingtimelines]

“Often, the outward and visible material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has already set in. The outer manifestations take time - like the light of that star up there, which may in reality be already quenched, when it looks to us to be shining its brightest.” ― Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family