A Post-Political World and the Powerless Public

A Post-Political World and the Powerless Public

Future historians will have an interesting task to work out. The modern era in Europe, ushered in contemporaneously with the industrial revolution, overturned the divinely sanctioned feudal order that preceded it. The theology of politics needed a reset. The industrial revolution settled on the paradigm of democracy as its new universal ideal. It took time to understand how the new theology could work. By the 21st century, it had bred a new Mani…