We entered a new cycle of history during 2013.
Like any cycle, this one started small. But it is growing quickly, and it is already swaying the future.
To understand this, let's briefly go back to the beginning -- when this cycle was first described.
In 1836, even before Alexis de Tocqueville finished his famous classic, Democracy in America, a British official named Henry Taylor published a book entitled The Statesman.
Taylor's main point was that the Anglo world had been focused on
forms of government for too long, ever since 1787 when the Americans
wrote their Constitution. Taylor noticed that that there are two main
types of political leadership: