“The revolutionary-seeming uprisings of 2009-2013 had some overlapping and some diverging causes in different geographies. But a general anarchist spirit was their common denominator. At its peak around 2011, this wave received broad support from both the radical left and the liberal center. These uprisings showed that we no longer needed leaders, organizations, and ideologies. Even in their absence, humanity stood against dictatorships and unfair economic practices. But it was too soon to celebrate. The uprisings, which did not give a concrete direction and method to humanity in general or to particular nations and classes, were not only defeated almost everywhere, but led to the further authoritarianization of the rulers.” A summative, but a very engaging read
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51