Saturday, February 10, 2018
Rhymers union?
Convective question.
Thinking about the demonic mission of paid "journalists" vs the simple information-passing role of direct reporting by ordinary people.
It's well known that some of the poems we now call nursery rhymes were written as anti-establishment news reports. They were coded (not encrypted) to avoid easy detection by the royal authorities and Inquisitors.
Question: Who was paying those troubadors? Were they crowd-funded by passing the hat, as street musicians and street poets have always done? Or was there an underground counterforce movement that organized and protected them? The written preservation of their work implies that somebody was serving as an archiver.
Labels: defensible spaces
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