Elon Musk reposted
Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueil
The fall of Rome was less a dramatic collapse and more the slow and eventually total decline of state services.
One day, your postman becomes a little less reliable. He arrives less often.
Then later on, he's gone, and you're not sending or receiving letters anymore. https://t.co/lYo2qu82dK
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil· Jun 24, 2026One signal of the Dark Ages is the decline of Roman documentary papyrus examples.
Another is the rise of Arabic documentary papyri in their stead! https://t.co/jVQeBgW40a
09:55 PM · June 24, 2026 · 252.3K views
114
283
2.2K