What then?

What then?

How the Rise of Depression Relates to the End of War Parties

And what we can do about it

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Sam Alaimo
Aug 20, 2024
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Thomas Cole. Falls of the Kaaterskill. 1826.

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“The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;

Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air,

And he that stands will die for naught, and home there’s no returning.

The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.”

– A.E. Housman, 1922

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