ENLIGHTENMENT PROGRESSION
The British Enlightenment Era and Assertion : Trafalgar (Martial/commercial) Capitulation: (WW1, decolonialization)
The American Enlightenment Era and Assertion : Revolution (Legal) Capitulation: Vietnam/NeoconFailure
The French Enlightenment Era And Assertion : Revolution (Moral/Napoleon-force) Capitulation (napoleon’s defeat)(decolonialization)
The German Enlightenment Era And Assertion : Unification (Rational using consent and reason) Capitulation: postwar germany.
The Russian Enlightenment Era and Assertion : Revolution (Bolshevik using force and propaganda) Capitulation: return to authoritarian economy and polity.
The Jewish Enlightenment Era and Assertion : 19th-20th Century (Pseudoscience using media) Capitulation: (just starting now, plus the anticipated failure of israel.)
The Chinese Enlightenment Era and Assertion : (Maoist Revolution using force and propaganda) Capitulation: Abandonment of communism and socialism and restoration of mixed economy.
The Hindu Enlightenment Era and Assertion : Unification, Independence, non expansion. Capitulation: (abandonment of socialism, and inability to solve domestic corruption and disorder,)
The Latin Enlightenment Era and Assertion (Socialism) Capitulation: In progress.
The Arab Enlightenment Era and Resistance : (Arab Spring) Capitulation? (perhaps not. perhaps their method of expansion by reproduction and raiding is superior to modernity.)
THE DECLINE 1914-1992
THE CONFLICT 2020 -> ?
THE REFORMATION ???? -> ???
Only solution I see is return to tribalism and abandonment of corporatism as science tells us the painful truth that none of our images of expansion is possible.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-20 04:37:00 UTC
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