reading excerpts from: Excerpts from The Ruins: Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and The Law of Nature by C.F.C. Volney, 1791

T. Jefferson & Co. always knew this whole Western Civilisation thing was living on borrowed time. He translated this text only for the unfree masonic brethren so most Americans never had access to it. Volney visited him in the U.S. He was part of looting Egypt so they had art & antiquities for the Louvre to look like they’d been around longer.