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I don't think the French Revolution was all sweetness and light, but do you really think the quasi-feudal society it overthrew was such a paradise? The discontent and appetite for change were real and widespread, whatever the cruelties and excesses that came along with it. In any case, while it can be argued that the West has undergone a certain amount of spiritual and ecological decline (I actually believe that to an extent myself), all the same we are living in an age of unparalleled affluence and technological development, for good and for ill.
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