Day 1,696: deprave

They do not see the West as the shining city on the hill, but as Rome before the fall—decadent, depraved and about to collapse amid a barbarian invasion.

The growing peril of national conservatism

Artwork of the day 
Bad band
Paul Klee
Date: 1920
Style: Expressionism
Period: Early Works
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, watercolor,paper
Location: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, US
Dimensions: 24 x 15.2 cm

Word of the day 
deprave: morally bad or evil:

Quote of the day
“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say

that we devise their misery. But they

themselves- in their depravity- design

grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”

― Homer, The Odyssey