[rlmorel]

My wife made a comment to me yesterday about Bastille Day, and some celebration for it.

I said something like “Oh. Bastille Day, the day where the mob took over, and turned into a bloodthirsty, vengeful, irrational Lord of The Flies rabble that ate itself beginning at its own tail? THAT Bastille Day that someone wants to celebrate?”

She had no idea what I was talking about.

[Olog-hai]

Goodness. As bad as history teaching had gotten in the 80s in high school, they were still teaching about the reign of terror in France back then.

[laplata]

said something like “Oh. Bastille Day, the day where the mob took over, and turned into a bloodthirsty, vengeful, irrational Lord of The Flies rabble that ate itself beginning at its own tail? THAT Bastille Day that someone wants to celebrate?”

She had no idea what I was talking about.

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I’ve said the same thing and gotten the same reactions.

Next time around we’ll be closer to the French Revolution than the American War of Independence, though.