Yeah, one of the things getting back to what I think my purpose here is, what my role is as a

popularizer of history, is if you take the French Revolution, people say, oh, yeah, I know the

French Revolution. There was a, you know, let's see, the monarchy went broke. So the Collie

States General. Then the Mistil came down. Then they chopped the king's head off and then Napoleon.

And, you know, that would have, you know, that took some amount of time, maybe a couple years, probably to get from one end of that to the other. I mean, there are

probably people out there that don't even realize that, you know, like Louis the 16th,

wasn't beheaded at the end of 1789. You just kind of think it all must have taken place.

And as you say, in some very short amount of time that a revolution is a very discrete, quick, violent event when, in point of fact, the French

revolution was something that went on for 10 or 15 years, you know, depending on what you think

at, where you want to mark the beginning and the end of it is. And, you know, if you're sitting

around in 1790 and 1791, let's say you're, for example, the Marquis de Lafayette, you know,

you can look for my book, Citizen Lafayette coming out in June of 2021.

There was every single reason to think that in 1790 and 1791, that the French Revolution as such was six months in the past.

It was eight months in the past, nine months in the past.

Now a year ago, I mean, that's the French Revolution is a thing that happened.

And now we are moving beyond the French Revolution, which is a thing that happened. As it turns out, they were practically still in the beginning of the revolution,

far from it being in the rear of your mirror. So to your point, I think when we look around at

what's happening these days, it is impossible to ever, you know,

plant your flag on something and say, oh, well, that was the end of that, or this is the beginning

of that. I think that us, in our own times, I speak even as a historian who has some experience

with looking for places to plant flags and sort of divide, say, oh, this is when it started and this is when it

ended and this, you know, this epoch divides from this epoch. Even in the modern world,

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