True, but I don't know how to relate this to "terrorists using telegram." I mean, communication is fast these days. It's not like we can prevent a militant in S

True, but I don't know how to relate this to "terrorists using telegram." I mean, communication is fast these days. It's not like we can prevent a militant in Syria from hearing news from Europe for months. re preamble: Of course, everything has stuff that happen before it. But, it's not like there were decades of "something major is cooking here" before the revolutions. No one really expected them. Voltaire, Rousseau and others associated with the revolutions had just recently published. Even they were cagey about being labeled "liberals." The idea of absolute sovereignty of "the third estate" was considered out there until the revolution was already happening. AKAIK, the term "democracy" went from meaning "naive anarchist ideas" to an actual system of government within 3-4 years. Monarchism went from being the only realistic option to outdated and doomed very fast, viral and global 250 years ago.