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Interesting for when one has an idle moment to peruse.
Factors leading to the French Revolution. 1780s.
Between 1715 and 1789, the French population grew from an estimated 21 to 28 million. The proportion of the population living in towns increased to 20%, and Paris alone had over 600,000 inhabitants.[8] Peasants comprised about 80% of the population, but the middle classes tripled over the century, reaching almost 10% of the population by 1789.[9] Although the 18th century was a period of increasing prosperity, the benefits were distributed unevenly across regions and social groups.
Those whose income derived from agriculture, rents, interest and trade in goods from France’s slave colonies benefited most, while the living standards of wage labourers and farmers on rented land fell.[10][11] Increasing inequality led to more social conflict.[12] Economic recession from 1785 and bad harvests in 1787 and 1788 led to high unemployment and food prices which coincided with a financial and political crisis for the monarchy
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Factors leading to the French Revolution. 1780s.
Between 1715 and 1789, the French population grew from an estimated 21 to 28 million. The proportion of the population living in towns increased to 20%, and Paris alone had over 600,000 inhabitants.
Peasants comprised about 80% of the population, but the middle classes tripled over the century, reaching almost 10% of the population by 1789. Although the 18th century was a period of increasing prosperity, the benefits were distributed unevenly across regions and social groups.
Those whose income derived from agriculture, rents, interest and trade in goods from France’s slave colonies benefited most, while tthe living standards of wage labourers and farmers on rented land fell.[10][11]
Increasing inequality led to more social conflict.[12] Economic recession from 1785 and bad harvests in 1787 and 1788 led to high unemployment and food prices which coincided with a financial and political crisis for the monarchy
Lprentice’s only values include an efficient computer system. Surely your ‘volunteers’ can tell us when our comments have been blocked and why? It is so laughable how every site, especially Right, and free speech, not least Left, block.
I’m up for the blowback, since I think I’m right. No worries if I’m not, happy to be disproved.
You’re wasting space complaining here. Why not go to the local gathering place at a certain pub you know that’s for the annoyed and disaffected? Then complain in comfort to similar men as yourself. It is obvious to a lot of us that our country and world are being decimated, under pressure from many sides and if we are not careful we will all lose a lot and some will be reduced to such a dire level that I can’t bear to think of it. But wait, stop and think, oh dear it is already happening. I try to keep aware, look at history and people’s wise thoughts about how to be, and look for positive changes being made, and where and how they could be made, around and in me as well. You moan about your own concerns sumsuch, you could do better.
Somehow it brings to mind some lines of Janis Ian’s from ‘Between the Lines.’
In books and magazines on how to be
And what to see while you are being
Before and after photographs
Teach how to pass from reaching to believing.
We live beyond our means on other people’s dreams
And that’s succeeding
Between the lines of photographs
I’ve seen the past —
it isn’t pleasing.
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/janisian/betweenthelines.html
I read through one of your comments, GW, and enjoyed it! I don’t usually have the time for that. Since I’m fond of you ‘DESPITE’, my last night at ‘my local pub’: a guy came up to me and asked if I thought I was a good person, I shrugged philosophically in the noise of the nightclub. He proceeded to tell me I was a creep and other things I couldn’t hear — he seemed to know me better than I thought. I can be awkward around women, natural for the reserved. I then asked him if he thought he was a good person — he talked about being a taxpayer, which was worthy of a laugh out loud. Convo ended abruptly when I said I was secure in my knowledge of myself — he shot off.
Sumsuch – I apologise and withdraw. I like to know who I am exchanging political thoughts with, but have got sidetracked with personal stuff so apologise for that. Keeping up with everyday stuff and trying to remain positive and look for the good, is my big task, thinking too of possible ways of us all coping at a better level.
I am constantly reading about the past, present and future, theorising approaches, trying not to be overcome by sadness, bitterness,and loss over the demise of my country and that of the humane world I thought we had achieved by the 21st century of our counting. I see us traversing the stages of grief in the loss of our society and future in the way that Elisabeth Kubler Ross referred to for human loss. And now need to stick to that in the main; so thanks for your reply.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. A Swiss American psychiatrist and pioneer of studies on dying people, Kübler-Ross wrote “On Death and Dying,” the 1969 book in which she proposed the patient-focused, death-adjustment pattern, the “Five Stages of Grief.”
Those stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.