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English town says deeply shameful tradition is worth saving actually (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You don't need to watch the video. Tom Scott/None of the interview subjects ever point out how fucked this is, but basically the story is rich sadists would put coins in boiling water and then throw them at poor children to watch them endure injury for small amounts of money as a form of entertainment.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The idea of money, the idea of the nobles. We shouldn’t do things that started as a nobel activity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the idea of the nobles

it clearly isn't, the elected mayor and citizens are distributing the coins

The idea of money

no-one's eliminated that one yet, you'll need to be a bit more patient on expecting people to not put cultural purchase on the medium for modern life, even in AES

We shouldn’t do things that started as a nobel activity

turn over your keyboard comrade. writing was invented for the noble class' record-keeping and taxes. <---specious but i want to illustrate why we need to exercise restraint on stuff like this, especially before it gets to points like 'urbanism and intellectualism are bourgeois'

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously certain inventions can benefit everyone but was just available to the bourgeois first. Same with medical treatment. And no, this is a minor issue for now but overall we shouldn’t defend the use as a concept. The difference is that this encourages the past ideas whilst writing does not

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

writing absolutely encourages past ideas, when people have access to those old ideas written down, or advocate them through writing.

and is the transformation of this ritual not a sign of encouraging ideas of the present? a female mayor, the ceasing of the heating of the coins, the lack of noble participation, couldn't i argue that this festival has been 'reclaimed' and embraces democratic values now?