: I did not know that. What does 'GCSE' mean?
GCSE stands for General Certificate of Secondary Education, and is a three year course immediately after Common Entrance. I'm not sure whether it's compulsory or not, but it is there.
: Not really. There is nothing in the definition of
: "revolution" which indicates that the mother
: country must be affected; I haven't a clue where you
: got that. The Revolutionary War was revolutionary in
: that it was unique. There was no war on the scale of
: the Revolutionary War for quite a while before. To
: rebel so utterly, so drastically for incredibly
: radical independance; to have a freedom and republic
: unseen completely since the time of the Romans—THAT
: is revolutionary. It was, as the definition goes, a
: "complete change of the political
: organization"—at least in America, but that's
: enough.
I quote "Mud and Guts" by Bill Mauldin:
"There was no question about courage. Twice at Bunker Hill our "rabble" showed superb self-discipline and held their fire until they actually saw the whites of the enemy eyes, then retreated only because thet ran out of ammunition. But they couldn't salute or march in step worth a hoot. In fact, our military prescence was so pathetic that many historians feel the American Revolution might have been more realistically called a rebellion. Perhaps secession is an even better word. After all, a successful revolution changes the mother government. We didn't change Mama a bit- we merely left her.
A more profound difference is that revolutions usually involve downtrodden, exploited masses who are stirred and pushed and pestered by agitators until they get off their duffs and do something about their condition. We had agitators in Revolutionary times, all right, but our Colonial ancestors didn't really qualify as masses, downtrodden or otherwise.
The average American in those days was about what he is today: a small property owner who admired independence and occasionally was known even to practice it. Then, as today, he resented being governed and taxed by a bunch of remote and powerful bureaucrats. He grumbled a lot over little tyrannies such as stamp acts and tea taxes- but a revolution? The very word causes a shudder to run up the bourgeois spine, and if there ever were, and are, two bourgeois societies, they're England and America."
It's also worth noting that only about 30% of Colonists were in favour of Independence, while another 30% were actively pro-British.
: Actually, Myth (the game) only does one: Leveler.
What I meant there was that the Leveler in Myth both Razes and Equalises, so, in theory at least, it shouldn't matter which one we use.
Martel.
