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thanks for sharing. I’ve been feeling pretty hopeless lately and this helped me today
Feel free to chill around here. I’m all about uplifting peeps!
Remember, it took the black death and like 1/2 the population dying to bring about this change
I mean the black death was like 450 years before the French revolution… I think it just took some angry French people for change
On top of a depressed economy from endless war and poor management of state funds, the details of the lives of nobles started to get published for just anyone to read which was unprecedented. Although no single thing can be attributed to causing the revolution, I think that just learning about how the nobility lived really put a difficult situation over the top for them.
Kings had nothing on capitalism. You could overthrow a king.
You can overthrow Capitalism, it weakens itself.
But then you ended up with another king. Overthrowing royalty was hard.
Easier to kill a man than an idea.
I agree with the sentiment and also wonder if she’s still ferociously pro-copyright?
She died about 6 years ago
Oh wow, I had no idea. Thank you for telling me.
So, to be clear, it’s rather unlikely that she’s still fiercely pro-copyright.
Is this quote from The Dispossessed? Or another of her many works?
Thanks! What a great speech! Her voice shines through as always
