PugJesusDon't worry, we're not far off from "It's God's Will(tm) that they're the ruling class and we're the peasants"
Don't worry, we're not far off from "It's God's Will(tm) that they're the ruling class and we're the peasants"
(Roughly) Daily“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore”*…
Wat Tyler’s death (left to right: Sir William Walworth, Mayor of London (wielding sword); Wat Tyler; King Richard II; and Sir John Cavendish, esquire to the king, bearing decorated sword (source)Your correspondent is headed into a melange of meetings (and their attendant travel), so (Roughly) Daily will be on pause for a few days. Regular service should resume on or around June 19. I’ll leave you with a (timely?) tale from the past…
“Steve” publishes a wonderful weekly newsletter, Dates With History. In a recent post he shares the story of Wat Tyler and the Peasants’ Revolt…
If you walked into Smithfield in the City of London in the small hours of the morning, you’d find the great Victorian iron-and-glass halls of the old meat market, traders hard at work while dazed club-goers spill out of nearby Fabric nightclub, uncertain for a moment what century they’re in.
A few steps away stands St Bartholomew’s Hospital—Barts—the oldest hospital in London still on its original site, patching people up since 1123.
On one of the blocked window bays of the hospital’s north wall, a memorial marks where the Scottish hero William Wallace was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1305, alongside remembrances of the Protestant martyrs burned here under Queen Mary between 1555 and 1558.
A third plaque, on another blocked window bay, recalls an event 645 years ago next Monday—15 June 1381.
That day, a man rode into Smithfield at the head of a rebel army and tilted the course of English history. The fact that he was dead before the day was out is beside the point.
His name was Wat Tyler…
[Steve explains the origins and workings of the feudal system in England, the (extraordinary) impact of the Black Death, the Poll Tax, the subsequent rise of peasant resistance, the Revolt itself, Wat’s demise, and the immediate aftermath. He concludes…]
… Wat Tyler enters the historical record on 7 June 1381 and exits eight days later, 15 June 1381, when he was executed. That’s his lot.
The revolt failed.
But the idea it carried—that labour had value, that taxation required some semblance of fairness, that the common man had rights—survived.
The Peasants’ Revolt echoed what the barons had done at Runnymede in 1215—confront a king and extract written concessions from him. Tyler’s rebels knew their history. Had they succeeded, those sealed charters would have amounted to a Magna Carta for the poor.
Over the three centuries that followed, the power of English rulers to do as they pleased eroded steadily. By 1689, the Bill of Rights made explicit what three hundred years had been quietly establishing—that rulers governed within limits they did not set themselves.
Wat Tyler hadn’t written that principle. But he had fomented one of its earliest and most violent proofs of concept.
There wouldn’t be another poll tax in England for six hundred years—until Margaret Thatcher introduced one in 1990 and was promptly removed from office.
History, it turns out, has a long memory for bad ideas…
(Trying to) hold power to account: “It’s 1381 and the peasants are revolting.”
* “Howard Beale” (Peter Finch) in Paddy Chayefsky‘s and Sidney Lumet‘s Network
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As we ponder power, we might recall that it was on this date in 1939, at Hyde Park, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt hosted a luncheon for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England. Despite his mother’s horror, FDR wanted to show the King and Queen an old-fashioned, American style picnic– featuring that most proletariat of dishes, the hot dog. In the U.S. to raise support U.S. for Britain’s cause in World War II, the royal couple at least appeared to enjoy the meal.
#culture #feudalism #FranklinDRoosevelt #history #hotDog #JohnOfGaunt #KingGeorgeVI #PeasantsRevolt #picnic #politics #pollTax #RichardII #WatTyler #WatTylersRebellion
Wordmark#banks produce nothing #own everything? #unsustainable
systemic + fatal flaw of modern day #fiat #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism: not #education or #intelligence earns most #money, no whoever owns #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation = will ultimately lead to less #innovation + destruction of #mankind, #rich vs #poor + #inequality growing = #collapse of #society "thank you"
= no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: will lose game to whoever prints #money + buys = owns #assets (#bank, #centralbank)
why? because new #fiat #money created of air whenever someone get's #loan approved (#governments usually get approved) problem: #interest on this #loan is NEVER created.
in order to pay #interest on #loan #government needs to take something away from someone (no matter domestic or foreign)
#solution: invest every USD + EUR + Peso in your own #INDEPENDENCE from #financesystem #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!
#OMN (Open Media Network)Build it permissionlessly and let it loose
One of the uncomfortable truths of activism is that, given a choice between anarchism and anarchy, many anarchists choose anarchism. The ideology, identity, culture, meetings, and certainties feel safer than taking a genuinely risky step into the unknown of stateless liberty and self-organisation. It's easier to belong to the subculture than to build the social relationships and trust needed to live without the structures there critiquing. A lot of radical politics gets stuck at this point: […]https://hamishcampbell.com/build-it-permissionlessly-and-let-it-loose/
witchescauldronPeople in general don't yet see the need to move beyond the #feudalism that shapes much of #FOSS governance. Because of this energy goes into defending existing structures and #blocking alternatives before they've have a chance to prove themselves.
That's one reason the #OGB approach is simple: build it permissionlessly and let it loose. People will see the value, or they won't.
The goal isn't to convince a small group of gatekeepers. It's to empower a much larger group of people to participate in technology, build consensus, and push the social agenda they actually need.
Less permission. More practice. It's a #KISS approach to #openweb governance.
in #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns most #money, no whoever owns #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation = will ultimately lead to less #innovation + destruction of #mankind,, #rich vs #poor #inequality growing rapidly = #collapse of #society thank you
= no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: will lose game to whoever prints #money and buys + owns the #assets (#bank, #centralbank)
the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own #INDEPENDENCE from the #financesystem is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!
#taxdodgers like #apple #google #amazon + those that enable it #corrupt #governments #politicians that do nothing #jpmorgan + #centralbanks #bank #banks that do not finance #innovation #usa #china #germany #india #australia #france
#uk #luxembourg #switzerland #caymanislands #panama #gurnsey #cityoflondon will play this #game to the bitter #fascist end and beyond
#berniesanders critical of #datacenters and #ai it is based and trained on ALL OUR #data and we are getting nothing for it
in #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns the most #money, no whoever owns the #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation, it will ultimately lead to less #innovation and thus the destruction of all #mankind, because #mankind without #innovation can not survive #survival
this ultimately means: no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: they will lose the game to whoever prints money and buys and owns the assets (#bank, also #centralbank).
the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own INDEPENDENCE from the finance system is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!
#finance #economy is not working for #germany hurray for #neoliberal #madness and #centralbank #stupidity (not funding #innovation ) #survival.
in #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns the most #money, whoever owns the #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation, it will ultimately lead to less #innovation and thus the destruction of all #mankind, because #mankind without #innovation can not survive
this ultimately means: no matter how smart people or governments are or act: they will lose the game to whoever prints money and buys and owns the assets (#bank, also #centralbank).
the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own #INDEPENDENCE from the #finance #system is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!
#conspiracy ??? #jpmorgan #titanic #fed #centralbank #fiat #currency #money #fascism
in #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns most #money, no whoever owns #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation = will ultimately lead to less #innovation + destruction of #mankind,, #rich vs #poor #inequality growing rapidly = #collapse of #society thank you
= no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: will lose game to whoever prints #money and buys + owns the #assets (#bank, #centralbank)
the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own #INDEPENDENCE from the #financesystem is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!