english: Rebecca Solnit, I think, put it brilliantly, when she explained: "The accretion of incremental, imperceptible changes which can constitute progress and which render our era dramatically different from the past" -- the past was much more stable -- "a contrast obscured by the undramatic nature of gradual transformation, punctuated by occasional tumult."
non_english: Rebeka Solnit je, po meni, briljantno to izrazila kada je objasnila: „Gomilanje postepenih, neprimetnih promena koje može sačinjavati napredak i koje dovodi do toga da se naše doba dramatično razlikuje od prošlosti“ - prošlost je bila mnogo stabilnija - „kontrast koji zaklanja nedramatična priroda postepenog preobražaja, isprekidana povremenom uzburkanošću.“