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Every change which has occurred has never resulted in a single pure ideology characterizing a civilization.

All change is plural and incremental, even so-called "revolutions" really just exchange the set in power for another set. They leave the plurality of really-existing power structures in place, whilst disturbing only a small number.

This is simply an incremental shift in power at the very top.

Utopian projects take pluralities of lifestyles and pragmatic political systems and attempt to unify them under a single consistent set of criteria.

It's something for the mind of an adolescent, to which this mode of thinking is common.

parent mjburgess 8 years ago

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