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Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Well, revolutions are a certain thing in history, you can't deny that. Did the Romans ever predict this world in their time? No. Would they ever have thought of an industrial revolution taking place? No. The world moves round because of revolutions.

well sure, we could call them storms, same thing. you can observe moments of stability and moments of fast change in any dynamic chaotic sytem, like the weather. but revolutions are not always progressive. the barbarian invasions of rome could have been called the revolution of germanic peoples, and they sank the world into ignorance and obscurity for centuries. more recently, the iranian revolution that foucault so stupidly praised, turned into the totalitarianism of the ayatollahs rather than some paradise of the people. and don't get me started on stalin and mao..