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irrigos · 2 years ago

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update on reading the man who was thursday: this is certainly illuminating when it comes to the calendar council in fallen london!!!! from what i can tell, gk chesterton has never met an anarchist, but he heard about them and got real scared and then made up a bunch of guys to justify why he got so scared. and then when they were making fl, early fbg i guess just went "yeah thats basically what theyre like, right?"

i mean, when our main character decides to join the fight against anarchism, its because he is told that, while most rank and file anarchists just believe it when theyre told that life will be better when we're all equal, their leaders know that that's actually impossible. "They are under no illusions to think that man upon this earth can ever be quite free of original sin and the struggle. And they mean death. When they say that mankind shall be free at last, they mean that mankind shall commit suicide."

so im guess we'll just put chestertons understanding of anarchism in the "maybe" pile.... because im not too sure about that one my guy......

anyway, this is just a little illuminating to me why the revolutionaries in fl never seem to have any real interests outside of causing violence and being righteously angry. as one may have assumed, its because they werent based on actual political movements at all, but by one catholic guys nightmare

#gk chesterton heard about anarchism and he got so scared he had to make up a bunch of guys to be mad at to justify why he got so scared #gilbert. my friend. this isnt what anarchists are like. these people are much too organized.#i think the calendar council stuff worked better in early FL when the tone was a lot more cynical #now they seem VERY out of place #but like. theyre not gonna remove or change them. so the only option was to create an entirely different revolutionary body #with the emancipationist tracklayers #aaaaaanyway. just some thoughts ive been having while reading #i know one of the twists in this book but there might be others that prove my read here wrong #also apparently they quoted this book several times in Deus Ex #ive never played it but my sister has and she told me about it #it makes sense to me that they would. since the premise of that game is basically #what if every conspiracy theory were true

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