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I doubt the town square ever existed as an idealised thing - social underclasses would always have struggled to even be allowed into the square, it would have b
by lifeisstillgood 4y ago
I doubt the town square ever existed as an idealised thing - social underclasses would always have struggled to even be allowed into the square, it would have been commercially dominated and social success would have correlated wrongly to commercial and political success.
Luckily we get to design the rules for our society and town squares and so improve access. In my view most of the so called "social justice wars" are to do with how far to the front shoukd one push previously excluded underclasses.
- defrost 4y agoKarl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, George Orwell, and others have all had their down and out days and spoken their truth to power at Hyde Park. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27_Corner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27_Corner
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoI suppose I meant a town square where all people n the town where and able to listen. That seems very small and scales up badly. I guess we mean "public discourse" - which mostly means books and newspapers then, and all variety of media today. And trust me, they did not get their impact by standing on a cold pavement outside hyde park. They used other media :-)