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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Jack Rabbit
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I can't get over the banlity of modern culture, but if they had television in France in the 1780s, what do you suppose we'd see? Probably balls at Versailles, featuring the Queen's outrageous hair-do and expensive gown and war coverage of King Louis' latest attempt to stick it to the British, all of which wastes money. But what else was there to spend money on? Years of bad weather and crop failures left the peasants with nothing. They could harvest no grain and thus there was no bread. France was an economic basket case.
Then one day the insipid journalist stood by as the bourgeoisie and thr industrial workers tore down the Bastille. I wonder if the journalists knew what to make of it, Perhaps a few did, the Amy Goodmans of the day, but only the radical intellectuals in the salons watched that kind of news.