It seems to me that we are in an age of more or less permanent revolution.
It started out as what Palmer called The Age of the Democratic Revolution, 1760 to 1800, in Western Civilization.
But it did not end there, but rather became generalized, not in the way that internationalist revolutionaries like Trotsky or Babeuf or Buonarotti, envisioned, but rather because events overtook Western Civilization, both internally and externally in such a way that what had been liberalism in the West became generalized by the West into multi civilizational developmentalism, which has resulted in upending political and cultural stability in all civilizations it has touched.
Bobbitt had a passage that captured the feeling of it rather well, Shield, p 258: "because our security problems...."
Bobbitt had a passage that captured the feeling of it rather well, Shield, p 258: "because our security problems...."
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