@zeh i don’t think this always works. if you clear away the old and bad without a clear vision of the better, there is no time. something must serve the functions of what has been eliminated. instead of peace for discovery, you get conflict and risk very unworthy victors, perhaps as bad or worse than what has been deposed. the russian revolution is a clear example: obviously one should have opposed rule by tsar, but its overthrow inaugurated a new civil war whose victor was a new catastrophe.