Conceptual Inkblot

A discussion has developed as to the most important moment--moment--in the last four hundred years. Of course the responses will be separated through various prisms--all colored as well by an individual's belief in the dominant concepts of history. A Marxist might think Lenin's taking power as communism's first great step, a transnational might suggest the creation of the European Union or the Euro or the collapse of the Soviet State, a Catholic might say the election of Pope John Paul, a Jew the Balfour Amendment or the American recognition of Israel, a Muslim might say the loss of Battle of Vienna in 1682--indeed a Christian might say the same. What would a Jewish Marxist think?

Of course there is no correct answer but it is an interesting exercise because it reveals much of the thinking of those in the debate. Groups, individuals, religions, states--all the answers as plausible as they might be--are revealing as to the makeup of the individual presenting the answer, what in college we often called a person's "conceptual framework."

It is a sort of intellectual Rorschach Test. Takers?