On this day in 1848, more than 40,000 French workers initiated the June Days Uprising after the state closed National Workshops that provided work to the unemployed, causing 10,000 casualties and 4,000 workers to be deported to Algeria.
The National Workshops had only been formed a few months earlier, when, on February 25th, a group of armed workers interrupted a session of the provisional government to demand "the organization of labor" and "the right to work".
In late June, the Second Republic began planning to close the workshops, leading to a national uprising. In sections of the city, hundreds of barricades were thrown up. The National Guard was sent in to quell the rebellion, and workers seized weapons from local armories to fight back.
The violence, which lasted just three days, resulted in more than 10,000 casualties and 4,000 participants to be deported to Algeria. Among the dead was Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris, killed while trying to negotiate peace with an angry crowd.
The rebellion was successfully crushed, and the episode put a hold on revolutionary ambitions of radical Republicans at the time. In its aftermath, the French Constitution of 1848 was adopted, mandating that executive power be wielded by a democratically elected president.
The first president under this framework was Napoleon Bonaparte, who dissolved the constitution during his first term in office.
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I know I’ve talked about this before, but how do I get over not being good enough?
I’m worried about actually trying anything because of my fears of two things: I will grow bored and want to go back to mindlessly watching YouTube and all that time and money will be for nothing (and there is so few time and money in the world), or that it will all be for naught because there’s too many people way better at it I will never even get an internship doing it. Of course employers will pick the best person for the job, and I will never be the best.
It makes trying anything seem pointless because failure is a certainty.
so cheesy as ît sounds: just do it for yourself. this life is an awful slog when we live it for the man, monetizin every skill. if you wanna learn something interesting, just... learn something interesting. leave whether it's gonna feed you or is the equation. may sound naivé... but if as you say, that calculation is impossible? maybe it's not.
just think of what skillsets youd like completed future you to have. then work towards that person, flipping off the haters along your path
I totally relate to this, it's such a difficult mindset to change, so I'm sorry you struggle with it
While I haven't changed my habits, one perspective that I have heard that made a lot of sense to me is: it's not that people are necessarily better or skilled at something than you are, or might be. It's just that they do the thing. Thats it. They decide to do whatever it is, and they keep doing it, and you could just as easily do it and do it as well or better. Like there is no other quality besides the fact that they have decided to act that gets whatever results. I just think about people who get in positions that they suck at, or dont really deserve because a b or c.... Or I'm like "man I don't get how this artist is THAT popular....but they just had the audacity to go for it, I haven't.
Idk if I explained that well but hopefully you know what I mean