“Let Them Eat Woke”, wherein it points out such obvious to normal people truths like:
France had been rendered bankrupt by the late 1700s; decades of costly foreign wars, coupled with endless extravagances by the nobility, had completely depleted the treasury.
The government’s solutions alternated between pretending their financial problems didn’t exist, to raising taxes at every possible turn.
The nobles hardly noticed. They lived lavishly while passing on the inflation and tax increases to the peasants.
French aristocrats were either completely clueless, or didn’t care one bit, that their policies were ruining people’s lives.
Soon a wave of radicals took over and formed a new elite (which became known as the Reign of Terror).
And just like the old elite, they knew best, and they were in charge of making decisions for everyone else.
This new elite encouraged the population to rat each other out for petty crimes.
They printed stupifying quantities of paper money and engineered hyperinflation across the country.
France’s revolutionary history is an incredible example of what happens when a tiny, out of touch group of elites manages to seize power and set the priorities for an entire nation.
We’re experiencing a version of this today in the West.
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