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Fareed Zakaria discusses his book Age of Revolutions, arguing that periods of rapid change produce both progress and backlash. Covers how technological, economic, and social revolutions create the conditions for populism.
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Zakaria argues that revolutions destroy existing meaning structures (religion, tradition, community) faster than they create new ones. The resulting meaning vacuum drives people toward extremism and populism.
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Every revolution produces a counter-revolution: progress and backlash are inseparable
Zakaria argues that revolutions — technological, economic, or social — inevitably produce backlash from those who feel displaced. The backlash is not a failure of the revolution but a predictable consequence of rapid change.Was this useful?