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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

The Guillotine, the Blade That Drops Down the Scaffolding

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The guillotine was an attempt to cut out the human equation. It took away the infamy associated with being touched by the executioner that would spread to your family in the old days. The audience going to these executions begins to, in some manner of speaking, look at itself and not like what it sees. So why did it end and how did it stop? That's an interesting process. Is there a road map there where you could say, ok, we've we inoculated ourselves against that once before?"

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