Poison
Discussion
言いたいことも言えない世の中じゃ？
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Caffeine helps a lot of people get through their day at their soul sucking jobs. Poison? It does more good than harm.
This could be reframed as “caffeine enables a society in which soul sucking jobs are normalized”
You have to give it some credit.
Sultan Murad IV decreed death to coffee drinkers in the Ottoman Empire. King Charles II dispatched spies to infiltrate London’s coffeehouses, which he saw as the original source of “false news.” During the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Rousseau and Isaac Newton could all be found talking philosophy over coffee. The cafés of Paris sheltered revolutionaries plotting the storming of the Bastille and later, served as the place authors like Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre plotted their latest books.
History is steeped in ideas sparked over cups of coffee.