I have always been fascinated by ruins. Looking at them brings me a feeling of melancholy and sadness. And that always made me wonder what the cause of this sadness was. Why do I feel sad when I look at ruins? Why do I find them so fascinating? Maybe it is a sadness borne of feeling like the world lost something valuable, or imagining how people used to live in these places and visit them…
“No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you’re still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.” — Steven Pinker The Rubber Boom is an event that occurred in the Amazon Forest. It was brought about by the sudden increase in the demand for rubber for the manufacturing of various products. It made people rich, built economies that were struggling before into prosperity, and left many Amazonian indigenous tribes devastated.…
