Nobody knows the extent of a ruler's power, not even the rulers, until the limit is tested. It has often been more fragile that it appeared.
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and so it always begins ... as an artistic fantasy, a motif, if you will, covering a yawning chasm of substance
And kings were only gotten rid of through mass bloodshed and violence.
That's the part everybody ignores.
I'd say divine right of kings just morphed into capitalism. There was never any in-between period where we were collectively free or anything. We never got rid of jack shit.
I really like this quote, always reminds my of this song: https://evangreer.bandcamp.com/track/surveillance-capitalism.
Who's the artist?
Reverse image search gives out this: someone by the name of toosphexy on instagram
According to the post they were commissioned by a book publisher for a t-shirt.
heres the link: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1219
and this was written in the description:
About the Illustrator:
Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist etc. etc. living in Portland, Oregon. He coordinates the national Endangered Species Mural Project, and helps to run the cooperative Flight 64 print studio in Portland. Check out his other work HERE(https://www.bonfire.com/store/toosphexy/).