Fun fact: As different as our ancient ancestors were from us in many ways, they also did not like freezing to death People being too poor to have enough firewood to keep themselves and their children from freezing in the winter was considered a moral and political problemhttps://twitter.com/jaronlukas/status/1362495637489471488 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
An impoverished child freezing to death was sort of society's iconic "innocent victim", if anything. It personified the moral crisis that clearly was felt by a *ton* of city-dwelling writers, when people die from the cold down the road from people who never even had to feel it.
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Replying to @georgetakesajob
Hans Christian Andersen's heartstring-tugging guilt-porn story "The Little Match Girl" was, in fact, written just two years after A Christmas Carol (1845)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @georgetakesajob
And is completely about how the fact of a little freezing to death in the street while we all walk by makes us all huge ungrateful shits who deserve to feel fucking miserable about it (Making people feel bad was HCA's greatest talent/special interest)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @georgetakesajob
Making her a match girl was clever symbolism on HCA's part, this horrific irony that she makes a living selling a convenient way to make fire when she has no heat herself
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Her supply of matches -- the only valuable things she owns -- gives her just enough heat to last five more minutes when she lights them all at once
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