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# Pantheon
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/pantheon/
- Published: 2020-03-09T17:51:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-07T18:13:47.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
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Walking past the television to get a banana, I hear an expert say, “The worst is yet to come.” So many years of institutional rot are catching up to us. People make comparisons to Rome. 

I remember gazing up at the oculus while families and lovers whipped me around as they snapped self-portraits. Soon I was dizzy and stupid because I could not comprehend how such a thing was constructed two thousand years ago. Such a place might never be created again. We no longer build to humble our pride.