Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 03, 2013
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Frazz: I was cooking yesterday and spilled cinnmon. In times past, wars were fought over cinnamon. Wars! Traders died getting it from Ceylon to the New World. The stuff was, quite literally, more valuable than gold and I just walked away and got another jar. That's the magic of history. Caulfield: It can make wars and fortunes boring? Frazz: It can remind us we're living in charmed times. Caulfield: I stood near another human being and didn't get smallpox.
They say, that, compared to thousands of years of history, this is the most peaceful time ever, when it comes to people killing people…Just a couple hundred years ago, life was cheap, brutal and short….