The Paris Commune! The First International! Emma Goldman writing about feminist ideas that scared the powers that be and still haven’t been implemented! The founding of Freedom Press!
Sorry, what do you mean ‘not those Victorian values’?
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Throw in Oscar Wilde and you’ve got my vote!
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I believe they still keep the Falklands for strategic sheep purposes.
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“The British empire was a globe-spanning criminal enterprise”
Cory, I’ve always admired you and still do, but I can think of no prominent intellectual less qualified to render sweeping judgments on the historical-moral utility of the British empire than you. Judging our ancestors by contemporary moral standards is easy. It’s also entirely unfair.
I would dearly love for you to write a non-fiction book that lays out your thinking on morality, law, economics, and politics in unambiguous terms. I have admired some of your fiction, but then…fiction is safe, isn’t it? You can always distance your reputation from a work of fiction because, after all, “it’s just a yarn.”
Thanks for reading my comment,.
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Good thing that people at the time said the exact same thing, then.
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Rule of Acquisition #1:
Once you have their money you never give it back.
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