Why did european monarchies failed to ban printing press?
>>17983891GOOD MORNING, SAAR!
>>17983891Because they wanted you to learn English, sir
Why would they? They were consistently on the side of the rising bourgeois (not a commie, they don't own the term) elite and against the nobility. A much more interesting question is why Europeans were so enamored with this invention when the Orient scarcely cared about it.
How would banning the printing press help them in any way?
>>17983920>>17984015Kek. We need to start bullying the ESL squatters on this board a lot more.
>>17984178It would prevent revolution.
>>17984190How?
>>17984291No printing press, no newspapers hating the king and religion. Revolution prevented, and the monarchy remained.
>>17983891Didn't try. >Just ban one of the greatest inventions ever and stunt your nation, bro.
>>17984291The communist manifesto for example was a mass printed pamphlet for largely illiterate workers to get duped into Bolshevism. It would be mass printed and distributed on the streets.
>>17983891What threatened European monarchies was an emergent bourgeois counter-elite who saw the king's place in society as increasingly less important than theirs, and not because "the people", by reading, like, pamphlets or something, suddenly opened their eyes to their subjugation. That is a mere second-order effect of members of the counter-elite first determining amongst themselves to pursue regime changeToday, every Westerner has a phone and access to samizdat at his fingertips. This alone means absolutely nothing. The populist cause has secured two (three?) Presidential elections in America and it is no closer to regime change than it was in 2015 - if anything it caused the regime to come down on its enemies harder than ever before. Without a counter-elite to direct that mass energy - literate or otherwise - nothing is possible, and recent events are nothing if not demonstrative of this
>>17983891City-states and Protestantism, I understand.
>>17984301How did the Romans get rid of Tarquin the Proud without the printing press then, genius?
>>17983891There were a buncha Republics around too.
Monarchs wanting prestige as enlightened rulers needed printing for reputation and intellectual clout. This is especially the case with Charles V.
>>17984046Wouldn't the very nature of moon runes make it a way bigger pain in the ass? Plus I would guess there were way more illiterate people in Asia at the time
>>17983891Propaganda machine. What's not to like?
>>17983891Banning it was a fool's errand. The genie was out of the bottle. For every monarch trying to suppress it, three rivals were using it for propaganda and power.
