06-30-2021, 02:55 AM
(06-29-2021, 12:38 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(06-28-2021, 08:14 AM)Captain Genet Wrote:(06-26-2021, 11:45 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: You seem rather free with your use of the word racism. Since I am Caucasian, and the Caucasus is near Russia, and since slavic peoples are white, I'd have to be racist against myself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Slavic_sentiment
Some you say there are three human races (White, Black and Mongolian) or five (with Semites and Native Americans classified separately). If you understand the word racism pedantically, no person of English or Celtic ancestry could be racist against Slavs. But if one understands racism more broadly, it can encompass any ethnic prejudice.
In the pedantic sense, antisemitism is not racism because there is no Jewish race.
galaxy Wrote:I'm not sure what you mean. Is there a good example of this somewhere?
I think the restauration of Bourbons in France in 1814-30 was a failed 1T after which France went back to the 4T mood.
Actually, the French 1T was a mostly-successful period from 1799 to 1815, in which Napoleon ended the Revolution and imposed order, except that Napoleon was too ambitious and hubristic, but was still considered the most successful ruler in French history and accomplished a lot to bring Europe forward. The Awakening in France and Europe actually started in 1815 after the Vienna settlement with a revival of revolutionary sentiment among young soldiers and students. Romanticism reached its height in this era, but then in 1834 the revolutionary enthusiasm was squelched for a while with the suppression of the last in a series of revolts, and realism began to be seen among some artists. Europe entered the 3T, which continued until the 1847-50 period when famine and revolution erupted, disrupting the stagnation imposed by the post-Vienna consortium and replacing it with nationalists. A series of 4T wars began after a civil war in Turkey erupted around 1850, leading to the Crimean War. It was the first in a series of nationalist wars that created the next era of real-politik. The next saeculum began in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War solidified the new regime, which created a new stability in which material innovation and colonial conquest accelerated, followed by the next 2T beginning in the late 1880s which dissolved this materialism into the world of modernism and alienation in the 3T, in which the triumphant but dangerous and malevolent real-politik, materialism and nationalism expanded into the world wars that ended European dominance and colonialism and discredited realist, racist nationalism, opening today's global civilization and millennial seaculum.
Makes lots of sense. So there was a normal saeculum, only somewhat faster. I'll make it a list, easier for future users to absorb:
Enlightenment Saeculum
4T 1776-1799 (23 years)
Romantic Saeculum
1T 1799-1815 (16 years)
2T 1815-1834 (19 years)
3T 1834-1850 (16 years)
4T 1850-1870 (20 years)