tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post3212935854454218046..comments2024-02-13T12:50:30.457-05:00Comments on Rants Within the Undead God: Prophet of Doom cheated out of his Due RespectBenjamin Cainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00661999592897690031noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-68633676770686470552017-08-03T13:19:41.921-04:002017-08-03T13:19:41.921-04:00It is quite similar to Spengler. Maybe just buildi...It is quite similar to Spengler. Maybe just building/expanding on the same ideas. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-88438732524551154142017-08-03T13:10:58.870-04:002017-08-03T13:10:58.870-04:00Ah, I see that the authors of the Saeculum theory ...Ah, I see that the authors of the Saeculum theory wrote The Fourth Turning, which influenced Steve Bannon. I'll have to look into this more, because although I don't know much about this theory, it's dismissed as outlandish by the American neoliberal establishment (CNN, etc), but if it's grounded in Spengler's ideas, I'd be inclined to defend at least some aspects of it.Benjamin Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661999592897690031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-10399985755092615732017-08-03T12:44:56.795-04:002017-08-03T12:44:56.795-04:00Interesting. It sounds like Spengler's theory,...Interesting. It sounds like Spengler's theory, especially the talk of seasons. I'd be curious how the saeculum idea could be mapped onto his theory. For Spengler, the cycle is due largely to waxing or waning faith in the society's ethos or core cultural myth. So his timeframe is longer than 80-90 years. <br /><br />I do like the idea that stages of individual growth are reflected in historical cycles. I've written about that on this blog, such as in the article below, which adds to the mix the difference between naive, childlike characteristics and jaded, adult ones. Young societies are childlike while old ones become cynical and pragmatic. <br /><br />Revolutions introduce the complication of new starting points within a larger, older society. Or maybe that's just a semantic issue of whether the period after the revolution amounts to the same society as the one that obtained in the prior period. For example, does Reagan's killing of the New Deal make for a different society than the one that formed after the Great Depression? Is there anything cultural that unites the whole of American history? I suppose there might be just a cycle, like ones we're talking about.<br /><br />http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.ca/2016/02/teen-angst-and-omega-mentality.htmlBenjamin Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661999592897690031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-67571585952704157972017-08-03T10:06:43.614-04:002017-08-03T10:06:43.614-04:00This isn't radom predictions, but based on his...This isn't radom predictions, but based on historical cycles. The 2012 "end of world" nonsense was not scientific in any way. <br /><br />https://www.saeculumresearch.com/knowledge-center/generations-and-turnings/turnings-introduction<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-7354875506142112932017-08-03T08:32:29.144-04:002017-08-03T08:32:29.144-04:00No, I didn't have any prophecy in mind when I ...No, I didn't have any prophecy in mind when I picked 2031 (not 2030). <br /><br />I suspect the prediction that "big changes" will happen in a particular year is unfalsifiable, since big changes happen in every year, depending only on what someone considers to be big or important. Big changes were predicted for 2012. Did they happen or not? The world didn't end, but maybe that was only the beginning of the end. Who knows? Predicting the timing of such immensely complicated historical events would be far from an exact science--unless you happen to have the mystical insight into the nature of human reality, as in the movie Pi. Benjamin Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661999592897690031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-69199623223606203922017-08-02T10:34:53.794-04:002017-08-02T10:34:53.794-04:00Not sure if you picked 2030 randomly or not. I fol...Not sure if you picked 2030 randomly or not. I follow a lot of cycle experts, people who study saeculum cycles. Many of them have the 2030 time frame as being the beginning of big changes. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com