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>>14084054

As renowned singer-songwriter Pitbull correctly observed in his elaborately crafted musical piece “Back in Time”,

>“Not worth the back of my mind
>But to understand the future
>we have to go back in time
>Baby, oh baby”

What does Pitbull express with such a statement? Does he simply allude to the theme of time travel present in the third installment of the “Men in Black” saga? I would argue to the contrary. Pitbull is making an ontological argument. We can only know Being truly and fully when we become acutely aware of history and how it shapes ourselves.
On a similar note, Leo Strauss relates to us the following opinion of Rupprecht, the deposed Crown Prince of Bavaria:

>“Some people say that the wheel of history cannot be turned back. This is an error.”

If we compare this with the thesis of Pitbull, we should not arrive at the commonplace conclusion, that “those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it”. In fact both Pitbull and Crown Prince Rupprecht are arguing for a very different analysis. In order to understand the future we simply have to repeat the past. To transcend postmodernism we have to regress into premodernism by undoing time. Humanity has to act in such a way as to memetically redirect the flow of Hegelian progress against itself. Such is the true rebellion of the Übermensch, the temptation of existing, the Sisyphean task. We have to transform the current historical synthesis into its previous thesis by confronting it with an antithesis specifically crafted for such a purpose.
What does that mean policy-wise? To undo globalisation and the paramountcy of neoliberalism, we have to rebuild the Berlin Wall and re-establish a socialist world power. To undo that socialist world power, we have to introduce a new Hitler, kill the Jews again, lose one world war, crash the economy once more, re-establish white terror, lose another world war, et cetera, et cetera. We have to inversely reenact history to such a degree until we arrive at the French Revolution, that infamous beast. Once we overcome this Whore of Babylon, we will have reintroduced the Ancien Régime and with it ius primae noctis. As the aristocrats who spearheaded this development, we will necessarily be enthroned as the new rulers of such a world. Consequently, we will have unlimited concubines, mistresses, harem slaves and waifus.