Thursday and Empire
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, one of my favourite reads, has a really cute article up, Thursday and Empire: or, How a Typical Workday Can Seem More Important When Modeled As a Great Era in Western Civilization.
I’ll have to model an Empire after my workday sometime soon and see how it turns out. I suspect that my empire will be modelled after Rome, and involve lots of coffee, curry, and technology. It’d be one of those empires that died out because of the strife and chaos caused by rapid development with little thought to the side-effects such a pace would have on social well-being.