As I sit next to the window in this empty, small Parisian flat, I ponder the meaning of freedom. What is freedom? Is it free to be chased and pursued for taking a stance against something one deemed to be wrong? To take away a man’s life and thus connected freedom is not something any man should have neither the power nor the right to do. Through the fight for equality among our society, society itself became the scale which one was to be measured by. Citizens had questions for a King who was not equipped to answer or willing to obey or listen to their grievances. Due to my actions, my opposition, my abstention, I have had to abandon my wife, my family, and my freedom to guarantee the safety of them from the chaotic, bloodthirsty, policemen
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All for what? To save a King that would not listen to his people. Without a government, people lead by emotion, chiefly anger, and look to take out frustrations on something, to put blame on someone, this blame fell on the King. Without control people need to rely on knowledge and ideals about the world and politics during the Revolution, the reason in which I published The Journal of Social Instruction. However, even with a blueprint for the rights of man, society without structure turns to anarchy.
I will never forget The Terror. The day the people of Paris stormed Versailles in anger at a King whom showed no progress, no chance for change, no diminishment of power or privileges. For the people this meant guilt and therefore treachery, but I was not one hundred percent sure. Looking back I know I could never be. The math behind the death penalties left to many variables open, meaning the probability of possible innocent lives being executed was high. Even after The Deceleration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen people like the King were not shown equality, meaning equality before the law. Likewise, I discovered anyone that shows opposition towards them will share the same fate, as well as the apparent lack of the freedom of thought and expression. This time without
All for what? To save a King that would not listen to his people. Without a government, people lead by emotion, chiefly anger, and look to take out frustrations on something, to put blame on someone, this blame fell on the King. Without control people need to rely on knowledge and ideals about the world and politics during the Revolution, the reason in which I published The Journal of Social Instruction. However, even with a blueprint for the rights of man, society without structure turns to anarchy.
I will never forget The Terror. The day the people of Paris stormed Versailles in anger at a King whom showed no progress, no chance for change, no diminishment of power or privileges. For the people this meant guilt and therefore treachery, but I was not one hundred percent sure. Looking back I know I could never be. The math behind the death penalties left to many variables open, meaning the probability of possible innocent lives being executed was high. Even after The Deceleration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen people like the King were not shown equality, meaning equality before the law. Likewise, I discovered anyone that shows opposition towards them will share the same fate, as well as the apparent lack of the freedom of thought and expression. This time without