{"id":6078,"date":"2020-03-01T16:41:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassdu.mine.bz\/?p=6078"},"modified":"2020-03-01T16:41:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:41:24","slug":"the-four-riders-of-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bassdu.mine.bz\/?p=6078","title":{"rendered":"The Four Riders of the Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arnold Toynbee (1889 \u2013 1975), a thinker heavily influenced by Spengler, contended that the essential entity that constitutes world history is not a region, an ethnic people or a nation, but a civilization, and he maintained that each civilization passes through five stages: genesis, growth, breakdown, disintegration, and dissolution (death).<\/p>\n

Islam, with the Arab Spring, has entered its breakdown phase. It will suffer an increasing identity clash as its old, tired ways conflict more and more with modernity, and it will split into traditionalists and modernisers and a great schism will develop, as happened between Catholicism and Protestantism, and into the gap will flow a rationalist Enlightenment that will eventually kill Islam (just as rationalism has already dealt a fatal blow to Judaeo-Christianity, but the zombie refuses to die for the time being).<\/p>\n

The West has also broken down (as the current financial crisis continues to prove) and could disintegrate rapidly. In fact, the sooner it dissolves, the better. There\u2019s no point in prolonging the agony. Capitalism danced on the grave of Communism in 1989 and now it too has died just a few decades later. Communism collapsed with astounding speed, and the same thing could easily happen to capitalism.<\/p>\n

The genesis of a new culture lies in the human response to some profound change in the natural or social environment, requiring an urgent adaptation. We can imagine that our rival human species \u2013 Neanderthal Man \u2013 died out because he failed to adapt at a critical juncture. We did adapt and we prospered. Neanderthal Man didn\u2019t and suffered a long, lingering death. That\u2019s the pitiless lesson from history to all of us. We could literally become extinct if we don\u2019t find the right adaptation. For humanity, only one adaptation is possible \u2013 we must leave behind the ignorant, superstitious, faith-driven, irrationalist Mythos-based past and embrace a rationalist, knowledge-based Logos future. If we don\u2019t, we\u2019re finished. Our extinction is certain.<\/p>\n

The Four Riders of the Apocalypse are circling us: global warming and increasingly extreme weather conditions, continual famines and droughts, overpopulation, shortage of drinking water, failure of capitalism, increasing personal expectations, serious possibility of deadly global pandemics in an interlinked, overcrowded world.<\/p>\n

Praying to God won\u2019t save anyone. Mythos won\u2019t save us. It\u2019s Logos or death.<\/p>\n

A creative, committed minority fosters the new culture and it can grow rapidly. However, when their original creative impetus fades, decay sets in. The original creative minority becomes an uncreative, dogmatic \u201cestablishment\u201d, upholding the old ways. A priest caste and a \u201cnoble\u201d caste (the rich) run the civilization in their own interests, in the form of privileged minorities dominating the weak, submissive majority.<\/p>\n

They create a \u201cuniversal State\u201d where their paradigm is present everywhere and everyone is programmed to obey the paradigm, and this is usually accompanied by an extremist religion (such as Judaism, Christianity or Islam) and a \u201cuniversal Church\u201d that actively seeks to destroy all outsiders, freethinkers, heretics, blasphemers and infidels that challenge the orthodoxy and thus cows everyone else (the common herd, the sheeple).<\/p>\n

Yet it\u2019s precisely because a paradigm becomes so fanatically entrenched that its demise is rendered inevitable. It can\u2019t adapt, can\u2019t respond to new facts. It\u2019s so deeply dug in, it can\u2019t get out again. As soon as the Catholic Church refused to accept the evidence furnished by Galileo\u2019s telescopes and preferred the scriptural position that the sun revolves around the earth, it was finished. The Catholic Church is a prime example of a great institution that becomes more and more irrelevant and powerless with every passing year. It has almost no positive influence in the world. Few people listen to it or obey it. Billions pay lip service, but don\u2019t authentically believe. Catholicism is a twitching corpse, with post-mortem gas emerging from its orifices, giving the illusion that it\u2019s still moving. Can anyone imagine a Catholic Church 1,000 years from now? Yet, because it built its foundations so deep, it remains standing. Nevertheless, it\u2019s already an irrelevance. No forward-thinking person would ever say to himself, \u201cHey, I had better join the Catholic Church!\u201d<\/p>\n

How can Catholicism reinvent itself? It can\u2019t. Hence it has no future. That\u2019s true of all rigid paradigms. Only dialectical paradigms \u2013 paradigms in which change and becoming are inbuilt \u2013 can adapt to new information. Had the Catholic Church been dialectical, it would have accepted Galileo\u2019s evidence. It was anti-dialectical and didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Catholicism is now the kingdom of night. It will never see the dawn. It\u2019s all over. And it\u2019s all over too for Judaism, Protestantism and Islam. They are all \u201cdead men walking\u201d. This is the planet of the living dead.<\/p>\n

Excerpt from HyperHumanity<\/p>\n

Mike Hockney<\/p>\n

Artwork by Doug Van Houten<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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