Chapter 872 Dark Brothers

In 1485 Florence was thriving under the rule of the Medici family. The usury that made them rich has developed into the banking and financial industry, and they have become the richest people in Florence.

However, their extravagant lifestyle aroused the dissatisfaction of Girolamo Savonarola, pastor of the monastery of San Marco in Florence.

He is a monk of the Dominican Church. When he preached, he criticized the corruption of the pope and the church, exposed the brutal rule of the Medici family in Florence, opposed the arrogance and lust of the rich, advocated the reorganization of social morality, and advocated a pious practice life. His words and deeds are quite won the support of the common people.

In 1491, he served as the abbot of San Marco Monastery. In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy, the Medici family surrendered, and Savonarola became the spiritual leader of the urban civilian uprising.

After driving away the Medici family, he led the religious reform in 1497, burning jewelry, luxury goods, gorgeous clothing and so-called immoral books in the square, including Dante, Ovid, and Boccaccio, banning secular music, Promote hymns and reform city administration and taxation.

At that time, Pope Alexander VI planned to buy him with a red cardinal's hat, but he called the Pope of the Borgia family "the representative of Satan". In the same year, the Pope excommunicated Savonarola. In April 1498, the Pope and the Medici family took advantage of the famine to incite the masses to attack the Monastery of San Marco.

The Republic of Florence failed, and Savonarola was charged with schismatics and heresy, and was burned to death in downtown Florence.

The secular church is actually not as extreme as ordinary people think. It burns books and uses fire at every turn. After the Crusades, many Greek and Roman books were harvested. The sand counter is one of them. The Vatican has Greek manuscripts. But this book is not for everyone.

If you want to read the church's books, you have to become a monk, let alone a woman. The church's monopoly on knowledge has indeed hindered the progress of the times, and also blocked some people who should not master knowledge and commit crimes.

The jury system is hardly useful. It is used by judges to share responsibility. These jury members come from all classes and occupations. It may be a Wall Street financial analyst and an old man who lives alone in a room to discuss whether a young man is Not really killing his father with a spring-loaded dagger.

Although all the evidence proves that the young man is guilty, as long as the jury finds him innocent, he will be acquitted.

Crowds are prone to sentimentality, and if a woman pretends to be miserable, someone will inevitably soften her heart.

The same is true for a young man, empathy and sympathy will affect the jury's judgment, but if the severity of the case affects them, it must be severely punished.

There is no jury in the Inquisition, but there are many villagers who form a group to accuse a "witch" as a jury. If the verdict is wrong, it is the judge's responsibility.

People's misconceptions about the Inquisition may have come from the Protestant Revolution and the ensuing hostility between Protestantism and Catholicism.

By the mid-16th century, Spain was the richest and most powerful country in Europe. The Protestant regions of Europe, including the Netherlands, northern Germany, and England, might not have been able to match it militarily, but they had a powerful new weapon: the printing press.

The Spaniards defeated the Protestants on the battlefield, but lost the propaganda war, and the Protestants attacked the Inquisition.

Countless books and pamphlets poured from the printing presses of the North, indicting the dehumanization and horrific atrocities of the Spanish Empire in the New World. Rich Spain was portrayed as a dark, ignorant, evil place. The female Pope Jon even arouses women's sympathy and indignation.

Catholicism lost to Protestantism in that propaganda war, coupled with courts that are good at shirking responsibility, Protestant countries appear to be very advanced.

The modernism that smashed all traditions and built a new one is like throwing away all the baggage of the army. It may be able to advance by leaps and bounds at the beginning, but the longer it drags on, the less strength it will have.

Greed is an original sin, maybe tomorrow, maybe next year, maybe ten years later. If the Federal Reserve stops low-interest loans, the housing market bubble in the United States will burst, and the bottom middle and low-income class will lose all their money, and their houses will be taken away by banks and they will live on the streets.

Capitalists don't care about the life and death of civilians, they only care about their own interests, even if there is a nuclear explosion in the world, they still have bunkers to hide in.

There are many kinds of lies, some are harmless, and some are harmful to nature, but these people are cunning enough, whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, they can escape every time, but innocent people are implicated by them.

Marx pointed out in "Das Kapital": "If there is 10% profit, capital will be used everywhere; if there is 20% profit, capital will be active; if there is 50% profit, capital will take risks; for 100% profit , capital dares to trample on all human laws; with 300% profit, capital dares to commit any crime, even risking hanging.”

Crazy to this point, maybe the capitalists can make money by digging their own graves and they don't care. The cause of the French Revolution was the soaring food prices, which caused the "dissatisfaction" of the citizens. The poor were hungry and malnourished, the rich wore wigs, powdered their faces and were arty in the salon, and the speculators simply ignored them. This kind of resentment continues Accumulation, the final quantitative change to qualitative change, out of control like a runaway wild horse.

The human mind has multiple aspects. Literary works actually swim in the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. Those successful works can often hit people's hearts and arouse readers' strong emotional resonance. The "literary works" he wrote are the channels for the author to express his emotions. , It is also the carrier of collective unconsciousness.

Why aren't the erotic novels written by the Marquis de Sade as popular as the books by Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

Sex is also unconscious, and the answer can be found by spending some money on prostitutes. Rousseau's thesis revealed the origin of human inequality, and made the oppressed people understand many problems that they didn't understand before.

Before the emergence of new media such as radio and television, newspapers were the main propaganda tool.

In times of turmoil, newspapers are a sharp weapon for partisan struggle, while in times of peace they are the seasoning agent of life. Cheap newspapers for the common people are full of soft articles, while newspapers for the bourgeoisie are much more expensive, and the content is less fancy typesetting. There are not so many anecdotes and romantic affairs.

Another feature of cheap newspapers is that there are many advertisements. People have more knowledge about hygiene, health, food, clothing, and family, and less law and politics.

The spiritual component of each nation carries the law of its destiny. It is simply a mysterious force, which is related to the entire evolution process of the nation.

Architects before Palladio also had a groping process, they made many problems that later people seem naive, but these people are explorers in the dark unknown, with their enlightenment, Palladio Radio went to Rome to see those ancient buildings, and only then did he have an architectural style that influenced the whole of Europe.

It is not easy to overcome obstacles in the chaos. Before you succeed, you have to face many failures, and some people even fail all the time.

You only live once, and you still want to stick to your dreams after failing all the time. Wagner experienced it in Paris.

Fortunately, he met Ludwig, a very rich sponsor.

In Madame de Pompadour's time, Venice already had a music printing press, but with it, Rousseau and Wagner would not be able to make a living by copying music.

In addition to works of art, there are artists who need to be protected, but in Phantom of the Opera, rich people only want to hang out with beautiful ballerinas, and their understanding of art is only at this level.

Their family lacks everything except morality, good sex Christine and her friends are protected, otherwise they will be harassed like other actresses.

In the ten years of the most intense religious reformation, radical reformists denied that ghosts and gods possessed material power, thereby denying the concept of demonology of witchcraft. The sound faded away.

But will the devil disappear with those books?

In the pink morning light of Venice, Pomona leaned against the lifeless square window and looked out at the Adriatic Sea, which was rising little by little with the climate change, and when it was higher than the Lido one day, even Moses The plan worked, but Venice would still sink to the bottom of the ocean.

It will become the second Atlantis, and people in the future must be as curious as the current people, why did it sink? But at that time, how many people recognized the current text?

Someone once said that GCZY is the last dream of mankind. It is powerful because of its vitality. But now I only see a dying corpse. After burning old books, smashing museums, and tearing up all ancient calligraphy and paintings, what is left of the great dream? What is raging over the ruins?