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Originally Posted by el presidente
Interesting that he separates the "Republics" by:
American Independence
Civil War
Great Depression
The Fouth Republic...whatever that might be.
While reading the article, I was struck by how economic and business factors have a more pronounced impact on government and policy, than the other way around.
My "Republics/Ages/Cycles" would be:
American Independence (we all have to begin somewhere, right?)
Industrial Revolution/Railroads
Automobiles/The Assembly Line
Now...Computers/The Information Age
What's next? What "new thing" can shape/mold our economic and political futures for the next six to eight decades?
I think that government is much more reactive than proactive....we really have few, if any, political "visionaries".
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Interesting segregation - I agree the Civil War was simply a feature of the Industrial Revolution in many ways.
The US really has two distinct revolutionary spheres, the economic and the political. The first list is the political revolutions, yours is the economic. This time, we seem to be undergoing both....