@art_of_goulwenr @cstross @dangillmor ehhhh I know why we always say that, and it has a grain of truth; change is never at the pace of perception. And yet, for all the revolutions seemingly back in the same place, society changed. The power of the nobility declined to the place of irrelevant rich people, new classes and priorities arose. To those people we live in a world of wonder absolute chaos, unimaginably different and a dream of social equality compared to, say, the Sun King.