The Science of Deep Time – October 17, 2018

Deep Time is cyclical, too Fact is that history is cyclical at all levels. Not only immediate history (current century, millennium) but also deep history (tens of thousands of years going back thousands of generations) is cyclical. A myriad sources[1] describe humanity’s inevitable march in a circle. We are truly condemned to repeat not only … Continue reading The Science of Deep Time – October 17, 2018 →

Is history cyclical?

Date: October 11, 2018 Where Oswald Spengler’s Der Untergang des Abendlandes meets Gregory Benford’s Deep Time Preamble What if history taught in modern schools is a lie? What if we’ve been led to believe that humanity is heading somewhere? That progress is immutable? That we are destined for greatness? That our destiny lies among the … Continue reading Is history cyclical? →

The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me! As civilized human beings, we have a history reaching back 2,500 years. Before that there is a prehistoric period of considerable length, hundreds of thousands of years of primitive life. The layer of culture, this pleasing patina, must be quite extraordinarily thin in comparison with the developed layers of the primitive … Continue reading The Journey Begins →