Honzuki S3E5/31
Every episode reminds me how I desire to see the protagonist using all this power she has to burn "the rotten corupt world".
Yes, I understand that she came from Japan and the Island is not the best example of society on these questions, but even so, having lived in some place more "normal" and now living and witnessing this society of MUCH castes, it's strange if she doesn't think that something is wrong and that could change a little.
Oh, Delia. Despite all it seems inevitable that will cheer her horrible sordid death...
Very well, talking about the talk with the Priest about possible consequences of the mass production of books (and what about the alphabetization rate?), that is just one of the "possible" consequences, one.
This world is very different, and I think that putting in place some regulation and censorship over the published contents would be enough. The biggest immediate impact would be breaking the artisans cooperatives that make the books manually.
They touch on this consequences just to right after leave it aside as if of minor importance.
No matter how powerful the nobles can be in this world with it's magic, below them there are also a powerful "bourgeois" merchant class
with zero interest in letting the status quo change. With some care would be possible to start a little industrial revolution. The proliferation of Myne's press could serve as inspiration for others to work on their own new contraptions, which in turn would be more faster disseminated through the books. These merchants could perform a little modernization in their closed society, profit a lot and still keep the rabble below them, all that without the nobles needing to do anything. Because after all, that caused the Protestant Reformation wasn't the press, was the ideas that were already circulating.
Interests me more seeing the story going in this direction instead of hinting to any revolution to topple the nobles.
And this caught my attention.
Of course we know very well that he hides his true intentions and also that he is using Myne, or at least planning to.
Everything points that his concern is really just and only Myne's security, not the consequences of her inventions. After all that discussion in he end he only says, "don't do this today, wait until tomorrow".
In other words, he only wants to make sure that Myne will put her brook factory to work after she has the necessary legal protection. As soon as she has this guarantee, and it could be yesterday, she can work.
I wouldn't be surprised in seeing he starting to suggest authors for her books. After all, there's that paper and dye merchant that was after Myne and mysteriously died... "mysteriously". Can bet that he wants to control exactly what merchants have access to Myne's inventions.
