The Great Fire of Rome
The Ancients
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Nira and the Fiddle
There are so many examples i think most disturbingly right before the pandemic hit in the united states donald trump tweeted something it was retweeted rather an image of himself playing a fiddle and saying no one knows what's coming next or something. well rome burned but really almost any politician you mentioned if you just google their name plus fiddle plus burn you're going to find a political cartoon that has them in front of some crisis in their own government playing some kind of stringed instruments and acting unconcerned I think it really caught on because it conveys this frustration that everyone has in times of disaster that leadership is not up to the task.
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