Rose: read this <file_other>
Amelie: hehe, Guardian again :P
Rose: sure, I like them!
Amelie: it's quite interesting
Rose: it is, but also maybe a bit naive?
Amelie: Yes, like comparing Europe nowadays to Europe in 536 is a bit simplistic.
Rose: True, people had different expectations then, perceptions, believes etc. Also imagination of what was possible or not.
Amelie: Exactly!
Rose: Like the volcanic eruptions they read as the anger of God.
Amelie: on the other hand, we have this kind of people here and now as well.
Rose: Good point. They vote for Trump
Amelie: So maybe it's not that stupid, the article. Maybe we've never changed, as humans
Rose: At least not as much as we would like to believe.
Amelie: Which is a beautiful but also sad realisation.
Rose: Look at all this racism and xenophobia around the world right now. If not even IIww and Holocaust has changed us, what could?
Amelie: nothing, I am afraid.
Rose: We just keep repeating the same stories all the time.
Amelie: Over and over again.
Rose: God, how depressing!
Amelie: Anyway, I have to come back to work. This sad truth about life never changes as well - we have to work.
Rose: And we become our work.
Amelie: Oh, yes! 
Rose: TTYL :*
Amelie: :*
Rose sends Amelie an article from the Guardian that compares Europe nowadays to Europe in 536. Rose and Amelie find differences and similarities between the two ages. Rose suggests humanity keeps repeating the same stories.