> .. “the reinvention of equality in the creation of a novel society.”
> The chicken revolution still reverberates in the region. Men can marry without selling off their land or animals and women can divorce their husbands with a freedom not found in many other West African societies.
Reading #AndrewLawyer's
#WhyDidTheChickenCrossTheWorld is a good motivation to raise chickens and spread the wealth! We got a few adopters coming to visit tomorrow.
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> As the poison numbed #Socrates’s feet, legs, and then groin.. [He] turned to his friend #Crito and said, “We owe a cock to #Asclepius,” referring to the Greek god of healing and medicine. “Pay the debt. Don’t forget.” His weeping friend agreed.. moments later.. Socrates expired. The last words of a condemned revolutionary thinker, who was praised by his famous student #Plato as “the best and wisest and most righteous man,” were about a #chicken.
#AndrewLawler in #WhyDidTheChickenCrossTheWorld
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