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RFTIT Basement Tapes: Revolt From Below

RFTIT Basement Tapes: Revolt From Below

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A while back, my editor Marc Kleinhenz asked me to write a bonus essay in case some of the Hymn for Spring essays didn’t come in on time and we needed to bulk out the book. I decided to write an essay elaborating on some of my ideas about smallfolk agency in Westerosi history, and wrote about ¾ths of it when the late-breaking essays came in and we didn’t need it. And then I forgot I had written…

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Krim here, are you really suggesting a pre-modern abolition of monarchies for large nation states and replacing them with a fully representative people’s assembly? Would that realistically be feasible during such troubled eras in history, RL or Westeros?

Let me tell you a story about my ancestor. His name was Adam Attewell, he was a London butcher, and in the 14th century, he joined an illegal organization created by John Ball, known as the Great Society, dedicated to the proposition that peasants should be free and equal people under the law, and that the land belonged to the man who works it. And when Wat Tyler rose up, here’s what Adam did: 

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When I say Team Smallfolk 4 Life, I mean it.