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Societies pass from peaceable to terrifying all the time, and it generally happens pretty quickly. Nobody ever seems to see it coming, although it's always obvi
by rfrey 11y ago
Societies pass from peaceable to terrifying all the time, and it generally happens pretty quickly. Nobody ever seems to see it coming, although it's always obvious in hindsight to armchair analysts.
It hasn't happened in one of the big powers in awhile, but 71 years isn't that long. It wouldn't be paradise the day before an election and hell the day after, but you never know what event will be pivotal. Until armchair time.
- rwmj 11y agoRussia being a good example.
- icebraining 11y agoWhen was the transition? I don't remember Russia ever being a peaceable society.
- creshal 11y ago1989. Most of the west expected communism to fall eventually, but nobody expected it to end as it did, when it did.
- chillingeffect 11y agoYup. Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur. Four genocides since WWII. People look up to Germany. Germany setting themselves up for disaster will make other people think they're somehow safe.