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> One also gets a sense of civil society as we have known it in the UK for a few hundred years of ending British history over the last few hundred years is und
by KineticLensman 3y ago
> One also gets a sense of civil society as we have known it in the UK for a few hundred years of ending
British history over the last few hundred years is underlaid by dissent and violent. We've had a civil war, war between England, Ireland and Scotland, regicide, restoration and a whole mass of protesting groups: luddites, levellers, diggers, ranters, suffragettes too name a few, and massive social upheavals caused by defeudalisation and then industrialisation/urbanisation.
To be clear, I also believe that the UK is getting more, ermm, 'agitated' than it has been since WW2, but IMO this is reverting to type rather than something that has never been seen before.
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- easytiger 3y agoThe English civil war had ended 370 years ago. I choose the number 300 for a reason > To be clear, I also believe that the UK is getting more, ermm, 'agitated' than it has been since WW2, but IMO this is reverting to type rather than something that has never been seen before. The upheavals of the past had relatively little conferred interference on the everyday lives of most people due to the structure of society. Modern upheavals are visited upon us with unprecedented latency and at a granularity that's far more effecting. Reading contemporary accounts of the restoration you'd barely think anything had happened
- KineticLensman 3y agoI was responding to > civil society as we have known it in the UK for a few hundred years Sorry if I missed the 300 somewhere
- easytiger 3y ago> few hundred years In the UK a few generally means 3