Fun read on the tyranny of “enlightenment”
(twitter.com)
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Luckily, the metric clock and calendar didn't catch on like the other metric measurements did.
The Twitter thread didn't specifically address the metric system.
But before reading the atheist reasons for going to a base 10 chronological system, I thought "Man, those French fucks love them some SI units"
The metric systems replaced... approximately the same number of measures in France as it has varieties of cheese. So that was actually an improvement. Whereas there was only 1 Gregorian calendar.
They could have easily selected any of those traditional systems of measures to standardize on nationwide instead of creating a new one. But the jacobins didn't really care about making measurement simpler, they just wanted to smash all traditions to make room for their fake utopia.
Correct. Maybe I'm biased because I'm used to the metric system. But a decimal system seems better to me, at least for measurements, than traditional systems. Anyone who has to work a lot with different scales, like scientists, does use the metric system.