When you break a previous system, often the new one you build avoids those same old mistakes, but then proceeds to make a ton of new mistakes. Like the french revolution, or hippies
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it all sounds great in theory, but it'll never be perfect when implemented in reality
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You might enjoy Toqueville’s book on the subject (get the version with Jon Elster introduction).
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Every revolution carries the seeds of its own destruction.... -----Dune:Messiah
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Mistakes is not the word i would use to describe the course of the French revolution.
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Hippies ... I share Cartman's opinion about them.
Yes ... the dynamics of life! The eternal dialectic dance ... Ying and Yang ... the Power Poof Girls ... forks and knives. But ... where spoons fit, then?
The mistake people make is to think things are stable. They never are.
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This is an interesting point - you can trace a direct line from French idealism that developed in the post-French revolution period to the development of BOTH communism and fascism. Turns out utopian ideals are dangerous - in any direction.
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The French revolution killed over a million people and resulted in another monarchy under Emperor Napoleon.
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