Post by Caliya on Feb 17, 2016 11:52:11 GMT
It was the dark ages, a time of the rich and the poor. Disease began to spread, from sources unknown. Women were blamed for casting spells on people and families to cause illness and death.
The rich politicians and their families sat on hills above the cities. They viewed the filth, squalor and disease below. But they were comfortable and got their taxes and food.
Voices cried out from the din of human misery. Those that spoke out against the government for inequities were silenced. They were killed or jailed. They were put in chains and put on display for people to mock. How could they speak out against the very people who were governing them and making their lives possible? Unthinkable.
Fetid cesspools ran in the city streets, most that were nothing more than mud pits with wagon ruts. People didn't bathe.
Aristocrats developed perfumes to cover their smell. Cosmetics to cover their infected skin. Wigs to hide their matted hair. But they looked right proper, and believed they governed even better. They could cover it all up, but everyone knew the truth.
If people died, it was God's will. Why should they care? Why should they invest any of their money to help the diseased? Lower classes were essentially servants in return for protection from outside forces.
At first, it was easy to blame the people when they complained. They were just miserable scoundrels anyway. Who would believe them? Let's accuse that woman of being a witch, for the devil twisting her words into hate. Let's burn her at the stake, as an example to others, not to listen to the devil. Speak only good, never evil. Because if you speak evil, surely you are taken over by the devil. You deserve death.
But then, the pestilence spread to the wealthy families. And when the wealthy families cried out for a solution, they were ignored at first as well. Because there were long-standing feuds among the rich, it was easy for some to say they deserved their fate as well.
Some believed if they prayed hard enough, God would pass their cities or families by. They would be spared. But when the pestilence spread far enough, and killed enough, there were those that looked for solutions. No longer relying on God, or avoiding the devil, they put to work in discovering what caused the disease.
No, it was not the poor. Not the women. Nor were there witches deserving death. It was their own sanitation.
For centuries, they had lived without proper sanitation. It was the way of the world. It was how one lived. To question it was unthinkable. Clean up? Clean up our act?
Look what it took for them to finally act on something so basic and simple. We can look back and say how ignorant they all were. The solution was in front of them all the time.
Times change. Views change due to knowledge. But it makes no sense to recant. The message of inequities should stand as a part of history.
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I don't care if this website continues, because I don't plan to participate anymore. But I do want to say, to wipe away everything that everyone said here (at this point in time) would be as if it never happened. It did happen. It did change things. At some point, it really should go away. It's not monumental like a period in actual history of human lives. But it has the potential to spare people throwing away money.
Keep your money. Spend it on those you love. Don't put yourself through the frustration of a class system (whether rich or poor). There are a lot of things to do in this life. This game is not one of them.
The rich politicians and their families sat on hills above the cities. They viewed the filth, squalor and disease below. But they were comfortable and got their taxes and food.
Voices cried out from the din of human misery. Those that spoke out against the government for inequities were silenced. They were killed or jailed. They were put in chains and put on display for people to mock. How could they speak out against the very people who were governing them and making their lives possible? Unthinkable.
Fetid cesspools ran in the city streets, most that were nothing more than mud pits with wagon ruts. People didn't bathe.
Aristocrats developed perfumes to cover their smell. Cosmetics to cover their infected skin. Wigs to hide their matted hair. But they looked right proper, and believed they governed even better. They could cover it all up, but everyone knew the truth.
If people died, it was God's will. Why should they care? Why should they invest any of their money to help the diseased? Lower classes were essentially servants in return for protection from outside forces.
At first, it was easy to blame the people when they complained. They were just miserable scoundrels anyway. Who would believe them? Let's accuse that woman of being a witch, for the devil twisting her words into hate. Let's burn her at the stake, as an example to others, not to listen to the devil. Speak only good, never evil. Because if you speak evil, surely you are taken over by the devil. You deserve death.
But then, the pestilence spread to the wealthy families. And when the wealthy families cried out for a solution, they were ignored at first as well. Because there were long-standing feuds among the rich, it was easy for some to say they deserved their fate as well.
Some believed if they prayed hard enough, God would pass their cities or families by. They would be spared. But when the pestilence spread far enough, and killed enough, there were those that looked for solutions. No longer relying on God, or avoiding the devil, they put to work in discovering what caused the disease.
No, it was not the poor. Not the women. Nor were there witches deserving death. It was their own sanitation.
For centuries, they had lived without proper sanitation. It was the way of the world. It was how one lived. To question it was unthinkable. Clean up? Clean up our act?
Look what it took for them to finally act on something so basic and simple. We can look back and say how ignorant they all were. The solution was in front of them all the time.
Times change. Views change due to knowledge. But it makes no sense to recant. The message of inequities should stand as a part of history.
--
I don't care if this website continues, because I don't plan to participate anymore. But I do want to say, to wipe away everything that everyone said here (at this point in time) would be as if it never happened. It did happen. It did change things. At some point, it really should go away. It's not monumental like a period in actual history of human lives. But it has the potential to spare people throwing away money.
Keep your money. Spend it on those you love. Don't put yourself through the frustration of a class system (whether rich or poor). There are a lot of things to do in this life. This game is not one of them.