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I feel every fantasy people have about the past existed exclusively within the domain of the wealthy.
Wouldn't that be crazy if concurrent media were historically so disproportionately focused on the rich and powerful that they were wildly overrepresented in retrospectives? The overwhelming majority of the population, the modern day equivalent of plebs and peasants, would just be walking around imagining themselves as lords and ladies in a bygone era.
Obviously, that doesn't apply to me. I have better education and standard of living than a peasant from ages past, but you get the idea. Anyway, I have to go post about why estate taxes and welfare are bad before it's time for me to clock in.
Ope...I hear it now. Now I hear it.