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2016-05-01 22:12:08 Post No. 7987400
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Anonymous 2016-05-01 22:12:08 Post No. 7987400 [Report]

From Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France:

>By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.

What did he mean by "flies of a summer"?

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Anonymous 2016-05-01 22:15:06 Post No.7987412
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Anonymous 2016-05-01 22:15:06 Post No.7987412 [Report]

Rising up in huge but temporary "success" for a short period and then falling, as regularly and as meaninglessly as the years passing by

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« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » 2016-05-01 23:11:10 Post No.7987595
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>>7987400
Selling paranoia. He scared. Conservatives are timid lot.

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Anonymous 2016-05-02 05:10:48 Post No.7989067
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>>7987595
why havent you died yet?

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Anonymous 2016-05-02 05:18:55 Post No.7989088
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Anonymous 2016-05-02 05:18:55 Post No.7989088 [Report]

>>7987400
>What did he mean by "flies of a summer"?
spooks

If anything the French revolution didn't go far enough, hijacked by the bourgeoisie.

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Anonymous 2016-05-02 05:22:00 Post No.7989098
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>>7989088
>hijacked

you're fucking dense mate

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Anonymous 2016-05-02 05:37:59 Post No.7989153
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>>7987400
burkes analysis is patball compared to de tocquevilles

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Anonymous 2016-05-02 05:43:17 Post No.7989175
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>>7989088
>hijacked