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>> No.20861328 [View]
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20861328

I just wrote a post-metamodern essay/proto-manifesto (over 4,000 words) on /lit/ right now.

This thread is literally meta/lit/ because it is about my own writing.

The tragedy is that anyone who's not Enlightened won't get it, and those who are Enlightened will see it as obvious (philosophy is either obvious or useless--L. Wittgenstein)
>>20860035
But I think it's a worthwhile explication of a rational mystical vision. Something that I experienced.

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The English language just sucks.

It doesn't even have a word for "female dog" for common usage.

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Based on my readings, I have crafted the following outline of History based on the fact that Western civilization conquered the world and became the Global civilization. The civilization of the globalized world is just extrapolated Western civilization.

The History is essentially, then, simply the history, prehistory and Future of Western/Global civilization

*Abstract thought begins (behavioral modernity)
100,000-25,000 BC: Middle- to Upper Paleolithic (Toba explosion, Neanderthal competition)
*Sedentary lifestyle begins
25,000-12,000 BC: Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic (resource-rich ecosystem overlap)
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*Agriculture begins
12,000 BC-7000 BC: Early Neolithic (Younger Dryas)
*Proto-civilization begins (proto-cities)
7000-3500 BC: Late Neolithic (Jericho)
*Civilization begins (origins of Western civilization)
3500 BC-1300 BC: Bronze Age (Mesopothamia, Egypt, Bronze Age cultures)
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*Western civilization begins
509 BC-44 BC: Greek domination (Solonian Constitution)
44 BC-AD 250: Roman domination (Crisis, Caesar, Actium)
250-500: barbaric revolution (fall of Graeco-Roman culture)
500-800: proto-feudalism/the Dark Ages (fall of Rome and Justinian)
800-1789: feudalism/European aristocracy (Holy Roman Empire)
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*Western civilization spreads...
1789-1918: proto-modernism/enlightened European aristocracy (French Revolution)
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*Western civilization becomes global
*Global civilization begins
1918-1939: modernism (WW1)
1945-1991: post-modernism (WW2)
1991-2022: meta-modernism (Fall of Communism + Gulf War)
2022-2045: sophistic modernism/globalism (COVID + War in Ukraine)
2045-2100(?): the Dark Age
2100+: pneumatic modernism/enlightened globalism

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20788483

His deepest Desire his entire Life was to be like Pynchon. He failed. Thus, he killed himself.

It wasn't le meds.

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20778356

>"New Sincerity"
>*doesn't address the Jewish question*

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