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    Peter posted an update 5 years ago

    I just finished A Tale of Two Cities. Although the ending was flubbed with the low born sacrificing himself for the escaping aristocrats, the book was extremely pleasurable in regards to the guillotine and all of the dead nobles. Maybe The French Revolution (1789) is a valid historical parallel to our current tyranny?

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      Billy Bob replied 5 years ago

      Throwing off one’s Master’s is a daily task like brushing your teeth. Failure to do so threatens your health and the ability to speak.

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          Peter replied 5 years ago

          I wonder what the turning point is? When the security apparatus of the State stands down and allows the palace to be stormed? Di(c)kens references a book, The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle. Maybe more insight. We need a Nuremberg 2.0. This system won’t let me type Charles Di(c)kens. 🙁 “You have posted an inappropriate word.”

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              Billy Bob replied 5 years ago

              At least it’s now telling the poster what they did wrong. Yes the thought police are everywhere even here. WordPress believes in censorship and profits from it mightily.

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                Allen S replied 5 years ago

                Charles?

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              FiatLux replied 5 years ago

              I see a lot of historical parallels between between our times and Weimar Germany, pre-revolutionary France, and Russia just before the Bolshevik revolution. The modern aristocracy has reached the “let them eat social credits” stage. But I don’t believe guillotines are the right answer.

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                  Robert Barricklow replied 5 years ago

                  Let them eat social credits!
                  Loved it!

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                    Scarmoge replied 5 years ago

                    ,,, but FiatLux we must admit when properly aligned, lubricated, and sharpened they are very efficient machines … just like most human beings. “Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?” Maximus Decimus Meridius riffing all existential like.

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                        FiatLux replied 4 years, 12 months ago

                        Antoine Louis was a capable engineer, I’ll grant you. This time, I surmise, the entertainment will be provided by a woke mob.