The New Dark Age Philosophy – Part 1
This topic turned out to be much too long for a single post so I’m going to break it up into parts.
Apparently there have been many dark ages in the past, each following the same process an producing the same results. Perhaps the very first could be called the calamity that destroyed the reign of the dinosaurs. Everything about them was soon forgotten by the survivors. After a great deal of time new regimes of animal life arose dubiously being able to claim the progressive new emperor of the new day – such as the primates.
Eventually there came the introduction of the human, apparently a mitochondria alteration of the reigning primates. And from that advent a new dark age began for the primates as humans organized a new reigning power and new relative “day of enlightenment” bringing about the Biblical Adam. Then Adam had his Eve and fall into the next night of darkness – the first dark age for humans.
From there the history of mankind proceeds with a variety of ages of relative enlightenment and ages of darkness. And they all, from the very first on followed the exact same pattern – destruction and erasure of the current reign – a period of chaos, destruction, and battling over territories, narratives, and power bases until a final victor of the dark night reigns over the confusion – a moon in the heavens to shed a small amount of reality across the planet – inevitably by force. Historians take note of this repeating process, begin to number them, and speculate a final outcome – a final “judgment day” – the last “day to night” step – at least for humans.
This pattern has been observed by many and not disputed by science or historians other than to quibble over who or what should get credit for each occurrence. It has been a notable fact of life on Earth. And I believe it is the very seed of the political idea currently called “progressive” – progress to the next dark age of destruction, confusion, and erasure from memory of all structure, culture, and thought to be followed by a new enlightenment narrative – or perhaps to the very end.
To me the all important question to be answered is what to do with it or about it. Should it be resisted, should it be hurried along, or perhaps merely accepted as fate and dealt with accordingly –
What philosophy is wisest to adopt in order to deal with the reality of this current day to night social pattern of life on Earth?
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