I am constantly boggled at the whole "Guy Fawkes mask" thing. If Alan Moore had been an American and had set V for Vendetta in America, it would have been a John Wilkes Booth mask. The point wasn't that V stood for FREEDOM or mild anti-government sentiment or even anarchy - the point was that V stood for TERROR. He was terrorizing the members of the ruling class for what they did to him. And he wanted to make them feel afraid. Hence the Guy Fawkes mask.
The folks who have adopted it as a symbol of freedom or even just as a symbol of anarchy feel to me like they've missed the point.
Rising Hegemon
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I am constantly boggled at the whole "Guy Fawkes mask" thing. If Alan Moore had been an American and had set V for Vendetta in America, it would have been a John Wilkes Booth mask. The point wasn't that V stood for FREEDOM or mild anti-government sentiment or even anarchy - the point was that V stood for TERROR. He was terrorizing the members of the ruling class for what they did to him. And he wanted to make them feel afraid. Hence the Guy Fawkes mask.
The folks who have adopted it as a symbol of freedom or even just as a symbol of anarchy feel to me like they've missed the point.
don't let the workers know what they are making,
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