The Abbey of Misrule

The Abbey of Misrule

Kill All The Heroes

The Culture of Inversion, part one

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Paul Kingsnorth
Feb 23, 2022
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‘When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?’

The first modern revolution was neither French nor American, but English. Long before Louis XVI went to the Guillotine, or Washington crossed the Delaware, the country which later became renowned for stiff upper lips and proper tea went to war with itself, killed its king, replaced its monarchy…

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