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During the Mega-Awakening the legitimacy of the "central authorities" of society begins to be attacked as a wave of social and ideological currents burst forth and batter the "Establishment" and take the complex system of social rules and fight over how and to what end they should be used. There is an increasing emphasis on the "rights" of individuals or groups and that these "rights" are being violated by the rules of society. This was the West of the 30-Years War, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, Descartes, and Newton. This is also the post-60s world we live in today.



The Mega-Unraveling is the Libertarian Age, where the old, complex system of rules for society is attacked and torn down. Philosophers and reformers preach eloquent words about the "Rights of Man" and of "Natural Laws" that made complex social rules unnecessary. Human authorities are deemed both unnecessary and evil since things are beleived to be "self-evident" to any intellectually-liberated individual. This was the spirit of the Enlightenment and of the American Revolution.