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Feminine Intuition Re: The French and Bolshevik Revolutions
When I was a girl, and I mean really a girl, not even in high school yet, I first felt something strange when learning about the French and Bolshevik revolutions. Now of course I knew nothing about nothing, it wasn´t about knowledge, but an intuitive feeling. There was something overly familiar in the style, in the mode between the two. Something that felt inorganic to the times and places at hand in each, let alone coincidentally common. It felt funny to me, the same air of new names, new days, new holidays, new clothes…something felt inauthentic about the story that this would of course naturally arise from any combination of serious men with pamphlets and angry peasants….no…I even had to explain it away to myself...wow that is key. Detectives always say that things women explain away to themselves prove to be real points of interest in investigations…
So as you may know by reading this journal, now that I am all grown up, I happen to have arrived at a place where I reject the accidental version of history in favour of the conspiratorial. And yes, the point where I fear I will lose the faith here of my most sober minded readers, I confess that my conspiratorial view of history goes all the way back including, yes, the French Revolution. But this I have come to through real reason and better understanding…So why do I come back to my girlhood feeling? Because I think it is something in all of us that can help us find the truth about our present condition. I believe that all of us have felt on from time to time that we were owed more by history, more sense, less coincidence, less unexplained drift into one direction, less feeling that we were taking footnotes but missing the plot, something more.
I am no historian, but I do feel that there is a challenge out there. In their job to map change over time, I think historians have overlooked some big things. What do you think?
2012-09-30 05:21:23
Source: http://lavenderluck.blogspot.com/2012/09/feminine-intuition-re-french-and.html
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