You can still buy curlywurlies in the UK (I suspect they've shrunk since the 80s when I used buy them as a kid tho).

Bought this as a joke in the Imperial War Museum... perhaps going to be more practical than I realised!

"Stand out"?? "Don’t obey in advance"?? The proper order of things requires one to conform and not rock the boat. Which would make it that much more difficult to say "but this is wrong" in any meaningful way. 6/6

talesfromthetwolands.org/2020/06/01/t...

On a tangent, it reminded me that this is the baby of our valorisation of the individual that shouldn't be chucked out with the bathwater of the selfishness it can enable. To an ancient Egyptian, with a primary dichotomy of order vs. chaos then much of the book would've seemed incomprehensible. 5/6

Nicely complemented by Ian Dunt's latest substack post which I read the same day: iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b... 4/6

I'm not personally living under tyranny, the rule of law and democracy exist here as they should, but it's still full of things that feel actionable, that things I do can bolster the good in our community rather than feeling helplessly hopeless. 3/6

Each lesson is a phrase, followed by a paragraph that gives you more context, followed by a couple of pages of examples from the 20th Century which concretise it. Things like "Believe in truth", "Stand out", "Don’t obey in advance", "Contribute to good causes". 2/6

Didn't last time round, the soldiers at Hadrian's Wall wrote home to whinge about it!