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Main He Who Fights Monsters Discussion
Can this overlap with I Am What I Am?
"The French Revolution. The people that instigated it intended to set up a republic modeled on America." Okay. No. This is the first time in my life I've heard it explained this way. The French Revolution was inspired by the US Independence, which proved that you don't need a monarch to keep a republic functioning, something that was barely thinkable back then. However, the French weren't trying to copy the USA, and their Constitutional Monarchy, and subsequent Republic was of an altogether different kind. Also, the Empire didn't undo what the Republic did: it kept the spirit, the inspiration... and the popularity. And there's more to the French Republic than the freaking Reign Of Terror.
- The French Revolution: 1789-1799
- The French Republic: 1792-1804
- The Reign of Terror: 1793-1794
1. I'm personally on the fence regarding the Conservapedia entry in "Truth in Television." On the one hand, I can see the logic in this, but on the other hand, the same could be said of Fox News Channel: they can unload metric tons of right-wing propaganda AND call themselves "fair and balanced" PRECISELY BECAUSE every other news-media outlet (to them) has a left-wing bias. (The truth is, IMO, somewhat more complicated, but that's their point of view.)
So, in short, I'm not sure Conservapedia would fall into this, as their whole point is to provide another (if heavily distorted if not outright fabricated) point of view.
2: "In Japanese mythology, a person who kills many Youkai will themselves be transformed into a youkai."—I like this! It fits into a fanfic concept I've been developing called Ghostbusters Japan, and it would very nicely give another explanation into why a Japanese ghostbusting team would capture and not "kill" or dematerialize ghosts. (Well, that, and a device that could vaporize ghosts could also be used to vaporize humans. ;) )