PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
The indoctrination that takes the place of actual education in our colleges and universities doesn't simply ignore the sorts of facts that might make students question what is taking place around them....
...it actually lies about what has taken place.
Case in point....lots of grads actually believe that the American Revolution and the French Revolution were similar in direction and in outcome.
Pshaw!
The former gave us democracy, freedom and liberty.....
....the latter, slaughter and oppression.
1. "If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century.
In fact, Rousseau has been called the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies." His call for the "sovereign" to force men to be free if necessary in the interests of the "General Will" harks back to the Lycurgus of Sparta instead of to the pluralism of Athens; the legacy of Rousseau is Robespierre and the radical Jacobins of the Terror who followed and worshipped him passionately. In the 20th century, his influence is further felt by tyrants who would arouse the egalitarian passions of the masses not so much in the interests of social justice as social control. "
French Revolution - Robespierre and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror
2. In the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country.
Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.
3. "That's in a country with between 24 and 26 million people, about the current population of Texas. In terms of population loss, that would be the equivalent of the United States having a 9/11 attack every day for seven years."
Coulter, "Demonic," p. 266.
The saying is that the French can't win a battle unless led by either a woman or a non-Frenchman.
And that brings us to the dictator, Napoleon...and his anniversary....
Today....April 11, 1814......Napoleon abdicated and was sent on a trip to Elba....
...giving birth to the most famous of palindromes:
ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA
...it actually lies about what has taken place.
Case in point....lots of grads actually believe that the American Revolution and the French Revolution were similar in direction and in outcome.
Pshaw!
The former gave us democracy, freedom and liberty.....
....the latter, slaughter and oppression.
1. "If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century.
In fact, Rousseau has been called the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies." His call for the "sovereign" to force men to be free if necessary in the interests of the "General Will" harks back to the Lycurgus of Sparta instead of to the pluralism of Athens; the legacy of Rousseau is Robespierre and the radical Jacobins of the Terror who followed and worshipped him passionately. In the 20th century, his influence is further felt by tyrants who would arouse the egalitarian passions of the masses not so much in the interests of social justice as social control. "
French Revolution - Robespierre and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror
2. In the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country.
Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.
3. "That's in a country with between 24 and 26 million people, about the current population of Texas. In terms of population loss, that would be the equivalent of the United States having a 9/11 attack every day for seven years."
Coulter, "Demonic," p. 266.
The saying is that the French can't win a battle unless led by either a woman or a non-Frenchman.
And that brings us to the dictator, Napoleon...and his anniversary....
Today....April 11, 1814......Napoleon abdicated and was sent on a trip to Elba....
...giving birth to the most famous of palindromes:
ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA