>>2749 >Those intellectuals who were against the princesses needed to articulate raw discontent. >Weave it into a moral and philosophical case against the Princesses. >Two books in particular were very influential: A Chess Game Among Deities by R.J Blueblood, and How Can I Sleep At Night? by Cloven Cares. >Both were the same grievance, but vastly different perspectives. >A Chess Game Among Deities was an intellectual, detailed in policy with a slight lean toward Republicanism, attack on how Equestria was run. How most of problems of Equestria seemed to revolve around the personal problems and family life of the royal pony sisters. How all these enemies who sprang up just seemed to have some deal or another with the princesses. How their family disputes spilled over into our daily life. How the world as we knew it was constantly under threat do to some enemy they had made a thousand years ago. How they always seemed to withhold information from us. >It was a fine. Well researched work. It spread among the elite and upper branches of society. Who had previously been resistant to such critiques of the princesses. They still were, but a well resourced and persuasive work by a esteemed (if obscure) relative of Prince Blueblood was enough to put a hole in that resistance, and among some of the more progressive members of the elite, set them against the princesses entirely.
