06-16-2021, 05:16 AM
(05-26-2021, 10:48 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Just a reminder: the most important event in human history since World War II is the independence of India (and with it Pakistan, Burma, and Sri Lanka). Size and scale dwarf all other secessions from colonial rule. Communist takeover of China? It is still China, and Communist rule did abandon economic Marxism and might even collapse at some point (what follows will still be China, much as much of the Soviet Union is still Russia) or morph into something else.
The most important events from the millennial saeculum are the Apollo program and development of personal computers. In 3000, noone will remember about counterculture, Bolshevism (both Russian and Chinese) will be a vague memory somewhat like that of the Teutonic Knights or Khazar Kaganate. But these two are technological breakthroughs comparable to development of writing and agriculture. I can forgive the saeculum its cultural crudeness since it brought these achievements.
Independence of India certainly was important since it marked the end of the British Empire, so if you want to discuss only political events, I agree that it is very important. India is now the world's largest democracy.