Wednesday, November 15, 2006

The more I read and reflect...

... the more I feel like part of a Fourth Estate, a Quatrième Etat...


Quote:

"1st. What is the third estate? Everything.
2nd. What has it been heretofore in the political order? Nothing.
3rd. What does it demand? To become something therein.
—
Abbé Sieyès, "What is the third estate?"("Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-Etat?"), January 1789

The Third Estate (Fr. tiers état) was the generality of people which were not part of the other estates..."

No need to guess what a possible definition of a Fourth Estate is then?

Signing off............. Rhetoric - Rearing its ugly head --> Disenfranchised.......
RC

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