This is so wild because what I want to do right now is explain a whole bunch of stuff about the French Revolution because it totally fits here

and it's really interesting but I was going to talk about the Bible today so we're

going to do the fast version. The French Revolution gets started in 1789 you

probably remember this from history class and it feels like it's pretty justified, right?

You remember that?

It was like, there's some age-old injustices here.

Something needs to be done and the people rise up and there's this Western liberal

Enlightenment freedom-minded thing that happens

and gradually over the course of a few years

the monarchy is disbanded

and they create this new constitutional constitutional republic the first republic it gets called and

maybe at that point when you're learning about it you're like yeah dang straight take that

fancy wig-wearing leotarded jerks. That's what you get for treating people like that for so dang long.

All right, I feel pretty good about it. We can just leave it right there.

But then the revolution goes on. pretty good renaming all the days and months and years and you're starting the calendar over?

That's, I mean, it's cool that you started new government, but that seems a little bit bold.

And oh, wow, we're executing people with the guillotine.

Tens of thousands of them apparently.

I mean, ha ha, well, I mean, I still agree with the original cause,

but it feels like maybe we're going a little far in the other direction and this era that I'm talking about

ends up being nicknamed after the fact this isn't the name they gave themselves the reign of terror and I'm not even sure the

reign of terror is the worst counter reaction or overreaction in all

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