- Fire on the Mountain: what if Harriet Tubman had been with John Brown at Harper's Ferry? = Black Socialist Utopia established in the south and a better world for all, with moon boots
- History Without Hitler: "Had he come, let us say, 10 years later, when the republic was firmly established, it would have been impossible for him. And if he had come 10 years previously, or at any time when there was still the monarchy, he would have gotten nowhere."
- also: somewhere in the multiverse Hitler died in the Beer Hall Putsch
- The Yiddish Policeman's Union: now we see through a glass darkly, a world like ours but with Big Macher department store
- I should probably read/watch The Man in the High Castle
- Kazaam / Shazaam
- "Mandela Effect: a theory that a large group of people with the same false memory used to live in a parallel universe (the name comes from those who fervently believe that Nelson Mandela died while in prison)" o_0
- Caliban and the Witch: capitalism wasn't the inevitable successor of feudalism; we could have ended up with radical free love peasant communes instead, if early modern Europe hadn't been all about that witchhunt life...is I think what this book is telling me?
- Ronald Hutton's The Witch: the early modern witch trials were the result of many factors including/especially the creation of the idea of the satanic witch who made pacts with demons, and the spillover from and mechanisms put in place by the church hunting heretics
- new new new counterfactual: the Council of Basel all gets the plague or cancels or decides to meet somewhere other than near Valais with its recent massive witch trial, so the idea of the satanic witch cult dies in its cradle and Europe doesn't do mass witch hunts for another 300+ years
- Ronald Hutton's The Witch: the early modern witch trials were the result of many factors including/especially the creation of the idea of the satanic witch who made pacts with demons, and the spillover from and mechanisms put in place by the church hunting heretics
- Guy who closed the gates at Hougoumont during the Battle of Waterloo didn't join the Coldstream Guards or stayed home sick that day or something
- Sept 1226 - Avignon holds out against the besieging French army for a few more days, the Durance floods the besiegers' encampment, the crusaders lose heart and leave Languedoc and its heretical Cathars, Midi never becomes part of France...Sept 1213 - the King of Aragon listens to Count Raymond and lives to continue the fight against the French and Catholic Church Crusaders, instead of dying in a chivalrous, doomed charge against Simon of Montfort...Jan 1208 - some fucking idiot doesn't assassinate Peter of Castelnau, the Papal Legate, sparking the Albigensian Crusade in the first place
- what if Robert Moses got carsick
- ...would we live in the mass transit utopia of our dreams?
jan 17 2017 ∞
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