8BC — Inventing Culture While Civilization Teeters
21 min readMar 26, 2020
8BC. It sounds ancient, like a marker of a bygone civilization, doesn’t it? And walking into 8BC was like descending into an archeological site. You entered at street level into another world; a cavelike room with towering walls of pitted concrete, where the floor dropped away in front of you and you descended rough wood stairs to a dirt pit filled with people, the ceiling vaulting high above. The…