“Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna’ be fooled again!”
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Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
“Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna’ be fooled again!”
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My daughter made a sign with this quote and I have happily carried it for all three No Kings rallies.
Eheheh. I really like the Nac Mac Feegles. I’m reading I Shall Wear Midnight these days, the fourth Tiffany Aching book. I was pleasantly surprised to discover they’re not totally invincible even as a group; they meet their match in the Ankh-Morpork watch. Not going to spoil it. :-)
Some of the best characters in all of literature! :-) And the Tiffany Aching series is great.
“One baron – and underrr mutually ag-rreeed arrr-angement ,ye ken!” ? Pass the Sheep liniment. By coincidence I finished it yesterday.
“One baron – and underrr mutually ag-rreeed arrr-angement ,ye ken!” ? Pass the Sheep liniment. By coincidence I finished it yesterday.
“One baron – and underrr mutually ag-rreeed arrr-angement ,ye ken!” ? Pass the Sheep liniment. By coincidence I finished it yesterday.
I don’t know why it posted thrrice. Sorrrry!
Typical Nac Mac Feegle overenthusiasm.
That’s the book I finished not the Liniment btw
Like Whywhywhy, I have been carrying the same quote on my No Kings sign. It’s gotten a lot of positive reactions.
I miss Sir Pterry. His books were so important to me when I was a teenager back in the 90s. His humour carried me through quite a few very dark hours.
Genuine question: what is the general consensus here of what it takes to have “no lords, no masters”?
What do the commenters here think that a society without lords or masters looks like, and what are the viable strategies to get there?
(Again: I’m not being snarky, I really am curious to know.)
“Genuine question: what is the general consensus here of what it takes to have “no lords, no masters”?”
A change to our anthropoid nature.
Far as I can tell, we homosaps are status-monkeys.
(It explains history adequately, IMO)
As I understand it, we’re equally related to chimps and bonobos. We currently behave like ships, but I can’t help feeling the bobobos have a better time.
Patriarchy is a hierarchy. The manosphere pictures a matriarchy as being the same with women at the top instead of men. But the matriarchies that have been studied are a much, much flatter hierarchy, and more like a circle with the vulnerable people (children, old, sick and disabled) in the middle.
It would be a start.
A flatter wealth distribution, for one thing.
A society where some people are billionaires, while others are so poor that they have no choice but to take any job they’re offered, on any terms they can get, is a society that has an aristocratic class of lords and masters. Even if it’s nominally democratic.
If we instituted more steeply progressive taxes and used the proceeds to fund basic income and universal healthcare, that would go a long way toward creating a society of real equality.
Thank you for the answers.