bobbyfiend

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[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This is a guy from the 18th century speaking his thoughts about his time, which was quite violent. There is no reason to believe he was a prophet seeing 250 years into the future of the nation he helped create, or even that he was some kind of ultra-insightful historian who understood all the cycles of the world better than all the historians before or since his time.

He was just a guy in a time. A smart one, but just a guy.