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58 History of Everything: The 14th Century and How Much it Sucked

History of Everything

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The Mask of the Red Death

It's called the mask of the red death and it was the default theme that wealth and privilege do not make people immune to death because all of these rich wealthy people were partying while this plague was going around. The patterns that really kept medieval society stable Completely broke down. It was replaced by hostility by confusion by greed abuse And it was just bad Okay, it is real I don't know there's like an edgar allen po or some other story Maybe someone in the college of you to be able to tell us I don't remember party And the masquerade is going on and then they hear like no plague is here You don't remember that no I'll be honest Other than the

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