ok, this is about one of the fundamental changes in the human history.
The only problem is, nobody agree on when and where the change happened.
Someone pins it to the french revolution, some others to the industrial revolution, others to the english revolution, other again to the bolshevic revolution.
But it is a fact that something happened in the way mankind saw history and his perspectives, switching from the idea that there was a good situation somewhere in the past to be used as a model and an ispiration, towards the complete different idea that the future could be better (and radically different) than the past.
While "revolutions" in ancient history always tried to get some legitimacy from the past presenting themselves as a coming back to the "good, old customs", in modern history they became effectively Revolutions with a capital R, and tried instead to emphatize their character of being something new, different from the past.
Because Revolution was the midwife of the future, dragging the world kicking and screaming towards its new bright future, when earth will be as heaven.
And since Revolution is not a kind midwife, many took the idea that you had to swim through a lake of blood in order to drag the heaven down to earth.
So my questions is:
1) what exactly is the POD here?
2) could it be averted, or could at least the two vision coexist?
3) what the consequences?