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> Though dark satanic mills are long gone from industry ... What does this mean? Vasteras Stockholm, known for its satanic mills?
by theteapot 4y ago
> Though dark satanic mills are long gone from industry ...
What does this mean? Vasteras Stockholm, known for its satanic mills?
- lifeisstillgood 4y ago"Dark Satanic Mills" comes from William Blake's Jerusalem (poem to green and pleasent lands lost). At the time (early 1800s) Manchester was the cotton mill capital of the world - Britain was China, America and Saudi rolled into one, and people were moving from farmlands into the cities and factories. The abuse was horrific- health and safety was a joke (this was the age pushing for making it illegal for kids to work in factories (cleaning behind moving engines, losing limbs), sexual predation from capitalist owners was rampant (you think Hollywood was bad), and the usual financial exploitation. Combine with coal soot and Dark Satanic Mills is a good term. Although Blake was more concerned about people losing their "natural" state because he barely was aware of the abuses in detail and he was middle class and worried about the loss of innocence that educated urban middle classes always worry about - the loss of an idealised non-existent state. People left farms for good reasons.
- theteapot 4y agoWow thanks. I'm glad I asked!
- TazeTSchnitzel 4y agoVästerås isn't part of Stockholm…