jamesflintmcgrawhamilton:

do u ever think about how james must feel about silver’s betrayal, knowing that a failed revolution only strengthens england? only makes the myth of england’s inevitability that much stronger? only makes it that much harder for the next person to defy it? 

silver didn’t just side with civilisation. he made james complicit in it – he ‘distorted’ james ‘to fit into their narrative’. he told the world that flint came to believe that england was right about them, and about him