A world without America?

[newharper]

To zion
I find it interesting, if not predictable, that you could view revolution solely as the 'violent overthrow of one political system which is replaced by another'. Revolution is about more than that; there are revolutions that take place in the way we think about things; the way we organise our priorities. Wasn't the Age of Enlightenment, itself, a revolution?

Indeed, the Renaissance, or even more ironically, the Industrial Revolution springs to mind.

Or, given his User name, the xian revolution, which required a renaissance to bring us back to an Age of Reason again.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Indeed, the Renaissance, or even more ironically, the Industrial Revolution springs to mind.

Or, given his User name, the xian revolution, which required a renaissance to bring us back to an Age of Reason again.

The age of enlightenment, etc were revolutionary, but they weren't revolutions.

 

[newharper]

The age of enlightenment, etc were revolutionary, but they weren't revolutions.

I was repling to to Nino's post;

To zion
I find it interesting, if not predictable, that you could view revolution solely as the 'violent overthrow of one political system which is replaced by another'. Revolution is about more than that; there are revolutions that take place in the way we think about things; the way we organise our priorities.

As it happens, I was waching a show tonight about how babyboomers (in the U.K.) have changed totally the way society sees age.

This is also a revolution. Social, but we have brought about a revolution in the way our society sees discrimination; be it racial, sexual, ageist or on religion or non.

 

[nino_savatte]

The age of enlightenment, etc were revolutionary, but they weren't revolutions.

They were revolutions. If a subject in this case (The Enlightenment) is revolutionary, then the event itself was a revolution. You used the adjective and tried to detach it from its subject. That wasn't very bright.

 

[nino_savatte]

I was repling to to Nino's post;



As it happens, I was waching a show tonight about how babyboomers (in the U.K.) have changed totally the way society sees age.

This is also a revolution. Social, but we have brought about a revolution in the way our society sees discrimination; be it racial, sexual, ageist or on religion or non.

Exactly, revolutions can take place in the mind as well as the physical world.