Don't cry for me Argentina/America

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Society is apparently trapped in a cycle of affluent times, revolution, mediocrity, counter-revolution and so on.

We've cycled back to 1920.  The revolution is building and the new Cheka is designing a landscape of decades of state violence.

Cheers

 
It seems we never learn.

I don't know if we keep thinking,  "this time will be different", or we just can't break the chain.

Radical political notions are in one sense like a virus.  There are some people who keep the notions alive even after they've been discredited.  Thus the notions continue to "live" until enough generations pass on that the lessons learned in the past are mostly forgotten.  The people who keep the notions alive serve as a "host" for the notions until conditions again ripen for their spread.

Cheers