democracy 3.0

I read a discussion thread about the modern history of China. It was mainly focused on the contrast between revolution(革命) and progression(改革). As the discussion thread said, since 1989, June 4th, the contrast started to generate debate in Mainland China. As time went on, the elite intellect circle started to shift from revolution to progression by studying history. At the time of 100 years celebration of Chinese overthrowing Huang Di system, such notion becomes more distinguished. The revolution one hundred years ago was belittled.

My thought on it was that, revolution was and will never be any single person, or organization's doing. A human being, or organizations may preach it, though they cannot guarantee such a spark, nor can they handle or direct the flow of revolution.

Progression on the other hands, are in the hands of elite intellect and government. Both government and elite intellect can actually do something to progress the society, culture, and government.

One of the people replied the thread said that USA and Europe are now in progress to the democracy 3.0, as compared to Mainland China, as it is at democracy 0.5. I think it is quite interesting. As the preaching of democracy, freedom, human rights, equality, has been over a century. Would this be a time of transformation? There are two direction, either ideological bubble being bursted, or being transformed.

Or we could keep trying to dig deeper, what does it really matter?