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Upvote for the play link - that's interesting and I hadn't heard of it before. Worthy of a top-level post IMO.
by dcminter 1y ago
Upvote for the play link - that's interesting and I hadn't heard of it before. Worthy of a top-level post IMO.
- gooseus 1y agoI heard of the play originally from Chapter 10 of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder: https://archive.org/details/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century-by-timothy-snyder-z-lib.org/page/n35/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-t... Which I did post top-level here on November 7th - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42071791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42071791 Unfortunately it didn't a lot of traction and dang told me that there wasn't a way to re-up or "second chance" the post due to the HN policy on posts "correlated with political conflict".
- dcminter 1y agoAh, I guess I see his point; I can't see the discussion being about use of metaphor in political fiction rather than whose team is worst. Still, I'm glad I now know the reference.