the creation of an intellectual eLiTe that gets negligible exposure to the history of western civilization and intellectual history in particular is probably the greatest curse of our time I am so mad about this instead we have distribution requirements in psychology good god
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still kind of incoherent but present era feels more similar to the late 18C to me than eg early 20C, much more first industrial revolution than second suspect american students are very badly served by focusing so much on ww2 instead of the Napoleonic wars
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And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon impovrished repenters? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic datacenters?
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Have you read Pincus?
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no who is?
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The English had beheaded their king much earlier, when they were still medieval enough to realize after the fact that it was a mistake, whereas the French were truly modern so that even when they knew they had screwed up they could not publicly to admit it.
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The French crown by that time was basically financially almost a Ponzi scheme, selling tax collecting franchises as a (if not the) principal source of revenue. Except there weren’t enough peasants to go around.
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Point being, it’s hard to have confidence in a system that can’t pay its bills.
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The English had already had their Revolution, and when the Restoration occurred, it stuck. No one wanted a second round of Puritanism; a Protestant figurehead monarch would do just fine.
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