Appendix 11- Meet the New Boss

What if I told you there was yet another tool where you could get surface level data insights in static, uninformative dashboards? There are 170 of these products and, luckily for you, we're not one of them. HEX is a new platform for working with data. We combine deep analysis, self serve, and trusted context in one platform with purpose built AI tools for data work. Over 1,500 teams like Ramp, Lovable, and Anthropic use HEX. Learn why at hex.ai. Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Appendix 11, meet the new boss. The working premise of these appendices is that we can take a bunch of unique historical events that are mostly defined by their own time, place, and context, and tease out some similarities. To observe how these revolutions progress through certain common steps. To catch the places where history seems to be rhyming. But as we moved into appendices nine and ten to discuss a specific stage of conflict between moderates and radicals, we have been drifting a bit from universal application. Not all revolutions become defined by a conflict between moderates and radicals. The American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the Spanish American Revolutions don't really express themselves in these terms. Sure, we could take the model and go looking for things in those revolutions that fit the mold, but they're not gonna fit that well or that convincingly. So, as we wrap up these appendices, we should always keep in mind that if we find uncomfortable tension between an abstract model of history and the particular details of a historical event, or if factual relations need to be ever so carefully stretched or framed to fit a template, my advice is to let go of the template. Always, always on the side of letting the historical facts speak for themselves in their own way and on their own terms. That said, we do return in this appendix to something that does seem to happen at the end of all revolutions. Well, nearly all revolutions. Not all of them. Never all of them, but most of them. It's actually one of the most common observations, about the universality of certain revolutionary events, that they seem to invariably reach a stage where political power and authority coalesces around the magnetic personality of a single charismatic leader, that what started as a vast, multifaceted, multifaceted, multi party, multi interest, all encompassing revolutionary mass movement aimed at the overthrow of the ASEAN regime, has splintered via the entropy of victory, will ultimately give way to a powerful leader commanding unique authority who will use their power to settle all accounts, tie up old threads, and often conveniently give name and face to the transition from revolutionary era to post revolutionary era. And whatever the specific causes, twists and turns, and courses of whichever revolution we're talking about, it is undeniable and practically axiomatic that a revolutionary period involves an enormous amount of chaos, uncertainty, and insecurity for the population of whatever society …