The players take part of a big historical event, like WW2. Although they cannot change the issue of the war, what happens to them and their individual fates is entirely in their power.
Would you consider this railroading or have the players keep their agency, just they have little agency on the world itself?
The Day of the Rope
The Molly Maguires became international news on June 21, 1877, when the authorities💥 hanged ten Irish miners in a single day in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.💥
Known as #Black#Thursday, or Day of the Rope, it was the second largest mass execution in U.S. history.
(The largest was in 1862, when the U.S. government executed 38 Dakota warriors).
The authorities accused the Irishmen of being terrorists from a secret organization called the #Molly#Maguires.
They executed ten more over the next two years, and imprisoned another twenty suspected Molly Maguires.
Most of the convicted men were #union#activists.
Some even held public office, as #sheriffs and #school#board members.
However, there is no evidence that an organization called the Molly Maguires ever existed in the U.S.
James McParland, an agent provocateur who worked for the #Pinkerton#Detective#Agency,
and who provided the plans and weapons the men purportedly used in their crimes,
provided the only serious evidence against the men.
The entire legal process was a travesty:
a private corporation (the #Reading#Railroad) set up the investigation through a private police force (the Pinkerton Detective Agency) and prosecuted them with their own company attorneys.
No jurors were Irish, though several were recent German immigrants who had trouble understanding the proceedings.
Nearly everything people “know” today about the Molly Maguires comes from Allan Pinkerton’s own work of fiction, "The Molly Maguires and the Detectives" (1877),
which he marketed as nonfiction.
His heavily biased book was the primary source for dozens of academic works, and for several pieces of fiction, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s final Sherlock Holmes novel, "Valley of Fear" (1915), and the 1970 Sean Connery film, "Molly Maguires."
According to legend, there was a widow living in Ireland in the 1840s named Molly Maguire,
who hated the landlords who were abusing the poor tenant farmers.
She supposedly carried a pistol strapped to each thigh.
She, or her followers, would beat or murder the tyrannical landlords, their agents, and bailiffs, whenever they tried to evict a tenant.
No one knows if she ever really existed, but other tenant farmer activists were said to cry out,
“Take that from a son of Molly Maguire!” when protesting against unscrupulous landlords.
“What if we reclaimed #Delusions as an integral part of human agency? We do not need to accept them as true beliefs about the world or the speaker. But we can stop assuming that they are where #agency goes to die. Remaining curious about the speaker’s perspective, where it comes from and what it means to them, is always the best policy.” https://iai.tv/articles/delusions-shape-our-reality-auid-2772#philosophy@philosophy
Thought I‘d try something: this book by Juerrero has come up a lot in some of the most interesting conversations I‘ve had on this platform about #causality, #complexity#neuroscience#agency#behaviour#mind and #brain and #dynamical systems but it‘s not an easy read. I am now determined to tackle it and will be posting updates as I go…
Ever wondered when/how to effectively move a task/responsibility outside the team? To a Global/shared Function, a Subject Matter Expert, an external contractor, an Agency, a Team Topologies’ Platform team or a Complicated subsystem team.
✨ Mon article sur la capacité d’agir des femmes usagères de morphine au XIXe siècle vient de paraître ! Je suis ravie d’avoir pu analyser de manière approfondie l’usage féminin de morphine au XIXe siècle en sortant de l’axe « addiction » pour montrer la variété de ces consommations ✨
My "Fourth Perspective" essay on why the basic unit of evolution is a complete life cycle, and thus an organismic agent, and why that really matters for evolutionary theory, is officially out today!
#CfP für den #Sammelband "Zum Pflanzen gebracht: Vegetabile #agency in Mensch-Pflanzen-Netzwerken", der "eine #interdisziplinäre Auseinandersetzung mit #vegetabiler agency in Vormoderne und Neuzeit" anstrebt.
Speaking as I was yesterday about issues of #agency in #EroticRomance, one of my least favorite tropes is the couple whose mutual misery is drawn out for chapter after chapter because one or both of them never speaks up to clearly articulate why they're mad, what they are afraid of, or what they actually want and what they absolutely will not tolerate. Communicate! #Communication