In the Little Ice Age, witches were a popular scapegoat for climate change
"To the envious it offered redress; to the bully, power; and to the sadist, pleasure"
Modernity is more barbaric; we respond to imperceptible warming by blaming fossil fuels, the source of prosperity
Then as now, timeless climatic processes were blamed on social ills, and elites trotted out all kinds of sumptuary laws, from which they themselves were naturally exempt
The "Great Reset" and hygiene lockdowns are ancient superstitious urges:
18 months of global pandemic policy has almost entirely ignored the existence of acquired immunity
Chinese rulers in the 1660s were not so stupid:
Chinese Soyjack
"We must protect the tonsured from the untonsured"
When people talk about poverty, they often picture something rustic and even a little romantic: a family growing its own cucumbers and maybe dealing with a leaky roof
Which is why I think all K-12 social studies should be replaced with diary accounts of poverty before capitalism
People love to point out that FDR's New Deal was explicitly modeled on fascism, but maybe his real inspiration was Qing despotism?
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