Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

7/14/2005

I know from the time we are school children whenever the subject of the French Revolution is broached we are immediately told how “brutal” and “barbaric” the revolutionaries were.

If you remember your old social studies days on that subject, you will remember how the period known as the “Reign of Terror” (1792-1794) is emphasized and not the fact that these ordinary people went to extraordinary lengths because their government had completely failed them in every way.

Les Misérables

As I grow older
The more I read
The more I observe
The more I understand

It is clear that The System keeps arbitrarily decided fates in place.
It is clear that we are taught to hate each other to keep us divided.
It is clear that the term “Status Quo” is the enemy of humanity.
It is clear that true power is not something that is given.

The more I understand these things
The more the French of the late 1700s don’t seem “barbaric” at all.

In fact,
They seem more like heroes to me.


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