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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: THE PRICE OF REBOOTING SOCIETY

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: THE PRICE OF REBOOTING SOCIETY

著者: Peter Kriger
ナレーター: Floyd Dameron
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In the summer of 1789, a bankrupt kingdom attempted the most ambitious upgrade in the history of government. Within four years the upgrade had eaten its own engineers, and a machine designed to guarantee the rights of man was signing death warrants at a rate that required printed forms with blank spaces for the names.We have been arguing about the bill ever since. Were the liberties worth the blood? Did the guillotine buy the modern world, or merely darken it?This book argues that the question itself is broken, because the French Revolution did not leave one inheritance. It left two, and they have been confused for two centuries. The first was a document: a short list of declared rights that spread across the planet and took root in dozens of countries without a single execution. The second was a toolkit: the emergency committee, the revolutionary tribunal, the enemy of the people, virtue enforced by fear. That toolkit also spread, and it turned out to travel perfectly well on its own, delivering no rights whatsoever to anybody it reached.Written with wit, irreverence, and an unsentimental respect for evidence, this is the story of how a reasonable attempt to fix a broken state became a lesson in what happens when a society removes the thing holding it up before testing what will replace it. It follows the wreckage forward into the twentieth century, where the toolkit was picked up again by people who knew exactly where they had found it and said so out loud.And it makes an unfashionable case for the alternative: that human flourishing has almost always been manufactured by tedious, reversible, local improvements that nobody ever wrote a song about, and that the surest way to lose a good idea is to make it irreversible.©2026 Peter Kriger (P)2026 Peter Kriger
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