Are we living in a time period of extraordinary historical

No.

Fukuyama was right and 9/11 and Islamic terrorists are overblown in the grand scheme of things. Fight me.

>>2664358
Islamic terror is irrelevant but islamic immigration and population boom is not. But that's 25 year rule so this thread shouldn't exist.

Yes

Planes, trains, automobiles, and the internet have changed society forever. Imagine if the printing press, use of horses for transport, and boats were all "invented" within a century or so. Society would evolve incredibly quickly.

In most ways the 18th century is closer to ancient times than it is to today

>>2664543
Additionally, think about how much military tactics have changed over the last 100 years

For thousands of years tactics were pretty much stagnant. Give Romans muskets and you'd pretty much have the Napoleonic wars. Bring a general like Hannibal into the 1700s and he'd hardly have to change his battle plans.

The advent of tanks, automatic weapons, planes, and nukes have completely changed the landscape

>>2664358

Liberal democracy is rather obviously waning and the problems associated with globalization aren't sorting themselves out any time soon. There's also the whole global warming thing.

>>2664573
>Liberal democracy is rather obviously waning
what did he mean by this?

>>2664632
trumpepe means that liberal democracy is dead apparently.

>>2664636
>waning means dead