Post #1149823
2026-04-14 19:44 UTC
history rhymes. this passage from Dalrymple's history of the East India Company is about Britain in 1599 and the excised word is 'religion', but you could easily be talking about #Brexit today.
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@cstross@wandering.shop 2026-04-14 20:11
@Talia@mstdn.social except that "most powerful institution" in Europe was the Catholic Church, in the era of the Inquisition and heretic-burnings. (Not exactly as enlightened as the EU!) And in those days religion was politics–the split was over the English monarch wanting a divorce and, later, to stay out of the French and Spanish Imperial spheres of control. A brexit analogy is a bit of a stretch!