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

[Josh Narins]

> >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.

Massachusetts you would be "totally" wrong about, Virginia more than correct.

My best reshuffle is to suggest it referred to voters, not humans.


> Shane Mage
> 
> "Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
> consent to be called 
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> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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