Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett I see this as "two steps forward, one step back" kind of progre

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett I see this as "two steps forward, one step back" kind of progress. Something you'd expect from an evolutionary process -- which the evolution of social structures clearly is. So the fact that there's perceived progress, which is then overdone to the point the structures in question collapse, then people pull back (too far in the opposite direction?) and are apprehensive for a while, but then try again, differently, having (hopefully) learned a lesson. One interesting observation: the "pull back" phase is not uniformly distributed across societies. For us in Eastern Europe, we observe West's cheerful march into deep Socialism with despair (our collapse being too recent). Apparently, in the West, it's a distant memory or never really happened, and the societies there are ready to give these utopias another shot (again, hopefully, having learned their lesson...).