i'm sitting in my bed reading about the ideals of the revolution and the spark of romanticism in france from my norton anthology of world literature. and some things just never make sense to me. people try so hard not to become the thing that they believe to be pure evil, and they end up becoming exactly that. my anthology states that during this time period, "Repressiveness now became the fearful enemy, uniformity the menace." what happened not 100 years after Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason? Karl Marx comes around. marxism lead to the revolution that ended in everyone being the exact same person. nobody was better than everybody else. you were uniform. what happened to those ideals they held so true to before? they were lost in the obsession to not become uniform.
yep. i'm a nerd.
