The fall of an empire is not the same as the literal apocalypse - it’s important that you understand that.
I don’t value billions of people’s lives and the existence of tens of thousands of species over wiping some soup off a pane of glass (not even the fucking painting), and find it disturbing that you appear to.
…buuut
…when someone splashed some soup on some glass.
That’s what you’re talking about, and I think it goes without saying, that’s both untrue and beside the point. I’m not sure there’s anything passive about what I’m saying.