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Hegel seems to think things progress where i see them as just changing, in some areas into a mode seen before in history and other times forward to new paradigms.

For example, he thinks freedom spreads and widens but i doubt it does in comminist china.

What do you reckon ?

he thinks freedom spreads and widens

it does: unevenly, and not without a lot of three steps forward, two steps back

barbarity becomes civilization which goes barbarous (but is a little less so for havin' extended out of a civilization)

it's a meanderin' trail, with plenty of swtichbacks, from the foot to the peak

I see, that makes sense.

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