Some days ago, I had the privilege of visiting the once prosperous and sophisticated Roman city of Pompeii, which the volcano Vesuvius buried under a thick carpet of volcanic ash in 79AD.

One of the graffiti that was found in the basilica, in other words in a public building or a marketplace at Pompeii, says: “A small problem gets larger if you ignore it.”  What does this graffiti say to me personally and to us as citizens of this country?

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