I kinda like the tongue-in-cheek, but do you realize that the antithesis to our Revolution, the one called the French Revolution...was based on the insanity you suggest?
From the novel Napoleon Pyramids, by William Dietrich
April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directorys new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.
Has any reform been more futile?
The Governments arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revisions intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.
Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit.
Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure. There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolutions doom.
Your colonial revolution was one of political independence. This one in France is about the very order of life. My God, a king guillotined! Thousands sent to slaughter! Wars unleashed on every French border! Atheism enshrined! Church lands seized, debts ignored, estates confiscated, rabbles armed, riots, anarchy, and tyranny!
Do you really want to compare screwed-up belief systems here?
