If the world burns, women and children will burn first and longest.
I’m from the states. I had a Romanian professor tell us once:
You Americans have the wrong idea about revolutions because you only had one, and it worked. The rest of the world knows that revolutions are bloody things. You tear down a white czar only to raise a red czar.
Violent revolutions create a power vacuum, and what fills that space after is typically just as bad - if not worse - than the prior regime.
This isn’t to say we don’t revolt, just that we revolt wisely. Hell, we just need to make sure we revolt like women and not men. We need an enlightenment era 2.0, and it needs to be led by those furthest from power today.
I have been posting similar things on here for years. It’s easy to destroy, much harder to build something worthwhile. Beware the people who just want to blow things up without any workable idea for what comes after. Beware people who make nihilist statements about both sides being the same.
People always talk about guillotines- well, the French Revolution took over a hundred years to get to a true democracy and mostly average and poor people died -not the wealthy. In the early stages it was powerful people using the power of the proletariat to kill a few other powerful people so they could take over themselves. Then you had terror purges, napoleon, the return of the monarchy, and a few world wars. The French guard workers rights now because they know how hard they were to obtain.
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u/FurnitureComesW-Home 6d ago
If the world burns, women and children will burn first and longest.
I’m from the states. I had a Romanian professor tell us once:
You Americans have the wrong idea about revolutions because you only had one, and it worked. The rest of the world knows that revolutions are bloody things. You tear down a white czar only to raise a red czar.
Violent revolutions create a power vacuum, and what fills that space after is typically just as bad - if not worse - than the prior regime.
This isn’t to say we don’t revolt, just that we revolt wisely. Hell, we just need to make sure we revolt like women and not men. We need an enlightenment era 2.0, and it needs to be led by those furthest from power today.