Comment on Revolting!
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 18 hours agoOn that last bit, I’m not seeing much difference. It’s not like if the repressed won that they’d all just suddenly let bygones be bygones & let those currently at the top just live out their lives peacefully (as if those types of people even could.)
The more things change, the more they stay the same, & all that.
PugJesus@piefed.social 18 hours ago
While one should always remain wary of that happening, I would like to emphasize that philosophical (and thus ideological) thinking has come a long way since antiquity. Fighting for high principles - and seeing them carried through - is possible, and does still happen.
By lacking a robust philosophical framework with which to envision a society entirely without slavery, on the other hand, the slave revolts of antiquity were robbed of even the possibility of carrying forward such high ideals.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
Such enlightened attitudes among the populace at large requires a strong educational system to instill such thinking, which is probably part of the reason educational system funding has long been a target for the power-hungry.
PugJesus@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Education certainly helps, but even academics developing such a system without a public education system can be game-changing, as long as word of mouth passes the ideals along.