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| Re: QAnon is scary stuff -- eDrek | Top of thread | Post Reply | Forum |
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I don't really understand how all this social media stuff works & have never had a facebook account even, but I see parallels with the period of the English Civil War when cheap printing coincided with all kinds of lunatic views & enabled their spread throughout the population. Some politicians tried to use this to their own advantage with varying degrees of success, but in the end rough estimates are that 4% of the population of England ended up dead. In Wales it was 7%, Scotland 12%, & Ireland a totally unknowable number, but certainly in excess of 35%. Scary indeed. "An analysis preserved in the Thomason collection in the British Museum
shows that although only twenty-two pamphlets were published in 1640, more than 1,000 were issued in each of the succeeding four years. The record number of 1,966 appeared in 1642" (Seibert 180). The voices that found their way onto the walls of alehouses and into the hands of the King himself were febrile, alarming, oftentimes toxic. Pamphleteers for the most part had no economic incentive to publish their work; they were driven, rather, by an earnest commitment to intellectual speculation, to the welfare of the state, and to the piquant power of the printed text. My bold...... Related link: http://cyberartsweb.org/cpace/infotech/asg/ag14.html |
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