"You hit me once,
I hit you back,
You gave a kick,
I gave a slap."
"Kiss With A Fist" - Florence + The Machine
Not even a
century after Voltaire's time, Humanity had tollerated the takeover
of the ongoing technological progress for the sake of enslaving the
majority in a paradigm of exploiters and exploited ones: the
magnificent Industrial Revolution had happened, and most people in
Europe were starving thanks to it.
At the same
time, politics in the Old Continent were filling with tension between
nations, with constant attacks between liberal states like France or
the United Kingdom and monarchies and imperial states like the newly
unified Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Ottoman Empire,
where regional nationalisms were fiercely persecuted; while this was
happening, both sides were accumulating weaponry for an explicitly
upcoming war.
It would not
be until the early 20th century, in Vienna, when a
philosopher would add a bit more sanity to Voltaire's thesis and its
effect.
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