The great fear of 1789

The more I read of historical materials about the French Revolution and so on, the more I realized that there was some very important aspect of social world that had to do with connections.

I remember reading a book on the French Revolution called The Great Fear of 1789 by the great French historian George Lefebvre, and he was tracing how peasant riots spread from one village to another, especially if those villages had post offices.

And there were maps in the book, and he had drawn lines between the different villages that had post offices, and it, in retrospect, was a network that he had drawn.

And so I was kind of primed to think about that in the, in that way 'cause I was very impressed by that, and I understood that it was the connections on the ground that really made a difference.