 This powerful and energetic demolition of the old ways may require some form of revolution or battle, but this is represented as glorious and necessary.Such movements thus compare the (recent) past with the future, which is presented as a rebirth of society after a period of decay and misery.The palingenetic myth can also possibly stand for a return to a golden age in the country's history, so that the past can be a guidebook to a better tomorrow, with an associated regime that superficially resembles a reactionary one.