10.31.10
The birth of the liberal class
Revolutions Per Second: The Rebirth of Democracy
The legacy of the French Revolution is so confusing that it can become one of the obstacles on the way to a progressive/revolutionary change.
It represents the birth of the liberal class (although one should argue that this really occurred in the seventeenth century), in a sense, and there’s the rub, an issue talked to death by the left, and by Marxists, still without any final conclusion.
Since the passage cited is in WHEE, about the eonic effect, it is important to consider the issue in that context: revolution appears in correlation with the eonic series, and almost nowhere else.
That means we have still not learned the lesson of radical change, and that, all at once, suddenly becomes obvious.