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Milestones — Age of Empire

Eight bills presented, eight answers of repression, zero reforms. This is the era that makes Stagnation inevitable.

Sixteen milestones. Pomp, gold, sanctified electricity, armed missions. And, underneath, the first bill.

The rule of the era: in every bloc somebody presents the account of the wound — a worker, a serf, an inquiry, a synod — and in all eight cases the answer is repression, not reform. This is the era that makes the Stagnation inevitable, and none of the eight notices while it is happening.


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