The dark ages were yesterday. Don't forget that when people talk about the "glory" of the past.
We have made such progress, and yet we are a stone's throw away from barbarity. It's frustrating to see people idealize the past in light of that.
I adore history. My eyes get all starry when talk turns to empires and city-states and revolutions of old. The past is a fun place to visit - but you sure as fuck wouldn't want to live there.
Chemical castration, with severe depression and suicidal thoughts as side effects.
As horrible as that undoubtedly is, in nazi Germany he would have been sent to a concentration camp, with forced labor and conceivably even the gas chamber.
That's how fucked up humanity was as a whole back then.
And yet, in France at the time nothing would have been done to him. In Belgium, in Switzerland, in the Netherlands, in Denmark.
The idea that he killed himself is debated, and disputed by his family. It seems more likely that the cyanide incident was an accident, not deliberate. He was not depressed or suicidal before his death.
Right wing governments will hurt anyone, even those people most helpful to them, if it means someone else miserable.
