Inverted S Curve of Revolution

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• Inverted S - Curve of Revolution
• We see that travel both vertically
• up and horizontally along the S is
  possible

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SKEWING

• War and its consequent debt as well as a
  general ineffectiveness of rule begins to weigh
  down the S. Essentially the first and second
  estates skewing the S.
• As this skewing takes place the emerging middle
  class as well as the traditional peasantry begin
  to descend where they were once either on the
  level or ascending. This annoys them.
• People do not like to rise and then descend.
  Particularly if they see their descension as the
  result of ineffective, corrupt, or antiquated
  rule.

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SPRING EFFECT

• Collapsing of its own weight and inefficiency,
  the top tier now reacts with what is known as the
  spring effect, evicting those at the top of the
  curve completely from the S.
• This creates a power vacuum that is quickly
  filled by the ablest of those from below. As the
  S is still reverberating, this shake-up may occur
  over an extended period of time, different
  individuals or groups may emerge to gain power.
• This movement is depicted by both the up and down
  arrows along the S, as there is significant
  movement in either direction during this period
  of turmoil.

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STABILIZATION

• During this period the S has returned to its
  original shape, altered slightly in the sense
  that it is now a bit flatter than it previously
  was, indicating that the levels of society are
  now closer together, greater equality, yet still
  differences.
• Notice that woman and servants are being
  repressed from above. They, along with the riff
  raff (which there will always be), form the
  bottom level of the curve. Upward movement is
  available to the riff raff, however not to women
  and servants. At least not yet.
• The evicted estates (12) will eventually
  reappear somewhere along the S, but only after
  their proper position has been defined.

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HEALTHY S CURVE

• Pictured here is a healthy S. Notice the free
  flow of movement both up and down the curvealso
  the rounded turns making for an easier transition
  from one level of society to another notice too
  the closeness of the levels to one another.
• Where this type of curve exists there will be
  relative harmony within society.
• Groups and individuals recognize that they are
  free to move up or down as their efforts merit.
• Only when those at the top force pressure from
  above, skewing this balance, will problems arise.
  

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CONCLUSIONS

• Given the ability to now make a bit of sense to
  what had occurred in France in the late
  eighteenth century we can easily see how those
  with no privilege could supplant those with
  privilege.
• When a situation evolves to the point where those
  at the top become inefficient and their
  inefficiency significantly impacts those below so
  as to disturb their place in society, negating
  both their hopes and their perceived rights,
  significant reactions may result. Particularly
  when a segment of those below have been
  performing for a period of time at a level which
  has resulted in a sense of upward mobility, which
  has now been dashed.
• Couple this with those at the very bottom now
  seeing no benefit to maintaining in any form the
  status quo you have the ingredients for
  significant insurrection.
• Where privilege is not merited, or when it
  becomes exceedingly oppressive, it shall be lost.
  Provided that others have acquired the ability
  to remove said privilege.