the creation of an intellectual eLiTe that gets negligible exposure to the history of western civilization and intellectual history in particular is probably the greatest curse of our time I am so mad about this instead we have distribution requirements in psychology good god
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He's talking specifically about the immediate aftermath of a revolution I think
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He also argues revolutions happen after the state tries to modernise in some way, which seems to be the more contentious point!
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that seems pretty plausible to me honestly modernizing --> major change to system, many incumbents stand to lose a lot, outsiders have much to gain, entire future up for grabs
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