Gen alphatardz are fashionably lame.

I love a good clown show.

Means fiction writers suck. They look at the facade of history, determine this must be how social/economical/political realities are. It's obviously very heavily borrowed from French aristocracy of the ancien regime. But if you're a true historychad, you would know French economy was expanding but it was beset with problems of tariffs which almost every once in a while caused local protests

most French markets were overwhelmingly local in character (by 1789 only 30% of agricultural produce was being sold in a place other than where it was produced). Price discrepancies between regions and heavy internal customs barriers, which made for exorbitant transportation costs, meant that a unified national market like that of Britain was still far off.

On the eve of the Revolution, a shipment of goods travelling from Lorraine to the Mediterranean coast would have been stopped 21 times and incurred 34 different duties.

The revolution, counter revolution, bourgeoisie, proleteriats are all byproducts of nameless and faceless officers of economic policies putting in and tinkering with economic experiments. Such is history I guess.

It's Anarcho-tyranny

I actually read all three when they were still new-ish to have things to talk about with my niece (also read all four Twilight books ) I didn't get the sense that she intended any deeper coherent political commentary than translating Battle Royale/Lord of the Flies to a post-apocalyptic America. They were but inoffensive and yes I feel ashamed for having read this much YA in my late teens/20s but family takes precedence over taste. !bookworms

Colonialism?