It seems worthwhile to post this comment here too:
Professor
Thanks for this sweeping and sobering post. I have been speculating that we are in sort of a seemingly permanent global revolution.
It started out with what I call the Civil War of Western Civilization, ignited by what Palmer calls The Age of the Democratic Revolution.
This revolution within Western civilization did not end. It has never really ended.
What has happened rather is that this revolutionary Western civil war has continued, through WWII, with the Orthodox world as a supposed ally of the Allies, and had begun to become generalized in the mid 19th Century, into the rest of the world, where it reignited and has revived old civilizational rivalries, and has given them modern industrial and technological tools to carry on what many have referred to a clash of civilizations.
Of course these clash thinkers do not necessarily connect the American Revolution with the clash of civilizations, but I see them as intimately connected in one very long revolutionary transformation involving enormous unintended consequences for Western Civilization.
All the best
Thanks for this sweeping and sobering post. I have been speculating that we are in sort of a seemingly permanent global revolution.
It started out with what I call the Civil War of Western Civilization, ignited by what Palmer calls The Age of the Democratic Revolution.
This revolution within Western civilization did not end. It has never really ended.
What has happened rather is that this revolutionary Western civil war has continued, through WWII, with the Orthodox world as a supposed ally of the Allies, and had begun to become generalized in the mid 19th Century, into the rest of the world, where it reignited and has revived old civilizational rivalries, and has given them modern industrial and technological tools to carry on what many have referred to a clash of civilizations.
Of course these clash thinkers do not necessarily connect the American Revolution with the clash of civilizations, but I see them as intimately connected in one very long revolutionary transformation involving enormous unintended consequences for Western Civilization.
All the best
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