I was originally planning to copy the whole post in a lemmy body, but mastodon makes it too painful to copy-paste as it truncates each link and images have to be copied manually. I also don’t know if it fits in a post body. Anyway, If anyone wants to try their hand at copy pasting it in its entirety here, feel free.
Have we forgotten the couple millennium of “divine right of kings”?
The divine right of kings was conceptualized in England by James I of the Stuart Dynasty in the 17th century, following the growing absolutism of the Tudors, and effectively ended just fifty years later when Cromwell executed Charles I.
Hardly two thousand years worth of it, even if you want to talk about how the idea wasn’t simply an English conceit.
My point isn’t that the fall of Rome didn’t usher in a dark age of democracy, even by Roman standards, but rather that claiming divine right is actually a pretty small portion of history, the Roman Emperors for example spent a lot of time talking about how they actually had the consent of the governed, even the ones who would execute you for treason for denying that they were literally a god.
And, of course, never forget what the most compelling counterargument to it is.
We can call it “sharply withdrawing the consent of the governed”
In truth statism hierarchy and by extent property seem to go hand in hand.
There was a monopolisation of the commons as far back as the earliest states of ancient mesopotamia, where the elites controlled the irrigation system and by extent the water, crucial for farmers to gain a substinance.
Why post something like this on a microblog platform? It’s very unsuited for this type of extended writing.
I agree, but people tend to post in what they’re already using. I have a hard time convincing mastodon people to even use lemmy
where in mastadon can you find things like this?
Follow some anarchists around and they’ll boost them into your time line. If you want you can start with mine @[email protected]
i’m not an anarchist, but i am a leftist and lemmy has taught me that the ideological overlap isn’t sufficient to engage like that; my intention was to lurk only and see content like this since i hadn’t yet seen it on mastadon.
timeline style social media doesn’t work for me; but they usually have social circles that you can see in something like a friends list. i’ll start there with yours and thanks.
I mean, if you don’t want to use microblogging you can just sub in communities like this one. This is why I crossposted it here, for people like you.
