bruh, that linear history though

History is linear by definition

*multiple people are typing* 😂

idk

dont think about stuff like that very often

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1jwsv-gvpM/?igshid=ikswggc74fur

People argue history is cyclical because there are many elements of human society and behaviour that are

But I don't think history itself is cyclical

cyclical just means that it tends to move in patterns

@Eccles duh

Predictable, repeatable patterns is what it implies, June

Noone that says that thinks it's literally repeating itself

Nor am I arguing that

But they do predict all kinds of nonsense based on the notion that "history repeats itself"

a concept rooted in a cyclical notion of history would be asabiyyah for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asabiyyah#Overview

I would imagine this is what the compass test AA came up with was testing

similar to the ideas of people like oswald spengler

who posited that civilizations are like superorganisms that go through certain phases of life just as organisms do

I've seen many such ideas before and had similar myself without prior prompting

They don't have much in the way of predictive power though

i dunno

spengler seemed to think that the west would enter into a phase of pre-death emergency in the 21st century

based off of his theories

Society and Civilisation isn't something that can be modelled easily, especially since it isn't a tangible thing in itself - it is the sum totality of all the other actors that are part of it

Everyone predicts catastrophe, it's what sells copies

the timing seems quite prescient, at least, and was rooted in patterns observed in historical civilizations

The only thing that could have been predicted with would make any sense is the set of issues were's now having as a result of global capitalism - the end game of capitalism and it's inevitable collapse

that is part of his model, in the sense that the 19th-21st centuries represented the ascendance of money politics, plutocracy, mirroring for example the two centuries preceding caesar in rome

So all we need now is someone to conquer Mars and his protege to become the emperor of mankind <:thinkgon:560211224923734026>

mars the red planet is already secretly ruled by cyborg stalin, the red tsar of space, silly goose

the soviet union didn't actually fight in ww2, their population losses came from soviet mars colonists

ye

smh basic histry

this is also why hitler nor his body was never actually found and why his supposed remains are actually a woman's

*a woman?*

he made a deal with the soviet union to fake a war on the eastern front in exchange for jupiter's moon, europa

a nice fiction

hehe

>they dont know
😂

first thing american mars expedition will hear is здравствуйте