[lbo-talk] newspapers in 1776 [was: happiness pays?]

[Shane Mage]

>On 4/2/06, Josh Narins <josh at narins.net> wrote:
>>  Anyway, it reminds me of the role of information in a popular
>>  government, and how America in 1776 was the #2 newspaper-reading society
>  > in world history. Sweden, at some point, beat that record.

Since a large majority of the population was totally illiterate,
this bullshit factoid must have originated with someone for
whom Blacks, Women, and Indians are untermenschen.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
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Zeus."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos