Re: Petty Squabble [ROUND 1] [Fort Ayers, New Atlantis]
09-09-2011, 04:24 AM
Originally posted on MSPA by Agent1022.
A group of indentured servants were one day tilling the land of their master, who was a cruel and terrible man. One of them rose up from his work and said to the others, "Why should we toil for our master's benefit when we could so clearly be our own persons? We should revolt, beat our ploughshares into swords, and stove his bloody head in!" And so they did.
However, being their master and therefore the one with all the weapons, the revolution lasted as little as five minutes and was lacking in any sort of violence whatsoever. The master then showed a remarkable modicum of mercy and allowed them to work in the land again without much penalty, a psychological tactic that swayed pretty much all of them. When they were out in the fields again, one of them said to the would-have-been revolutionary leader, "Do you know what this means?"
To which he replied, "I had a few things in mind about the subjugation of the common man, but I get the feeling that you have something else in mind."
And indeed the asker did. He continued, "This means we all just got re-serfed!"
The groans were endless.
A group of indentured servants were one day tilling the land of their master, who was a cruel and terrible man. One of them rose up from his work and said to the others, "Why should we toil for our master's benefit when we could so clearly be our own persons? We should revolt, beat our ploughshares into swords, and stove his bloody head in!" And so they did.
However, being their master and therefore the one with all the weapons, the revolution lasted as little as five minutes and was lacking in any sort of violence whatsoever. The master then showed a remarkable modicum of mercy and allowed them to work in the land again without much penalty, a psychological tactic that swayed pretty much all of them. When they were out in the fields again, one of them said to the would-have-been revolutionary leader, "Do you know what this means?"
To which he replied, "I had a few things in mind about the subjugation of the common man, but I get the feeling that you have something else in mind."
And indeed the asker did. He continued, "This means we all just got re-serfed!"
The groans were endless.
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