- 29 Nov 2016 06:35
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Some thoughts on Ages and their Durations.
Radical Traditionalists usually divide history up into "ages" that correspond roughly to the character of the fundamental human castes / activities: royalty, warrior, laborer and (from my point of view) the underclass is also a caste. I think that the length of each age also corresponds to the power associated with those groups, meaning that our current age may be the shortest one.
The "golden age" might be attributed to pre-history or very early historical periods, when human civilization could be said to have begun but there was little to no writing and record keeping.
Ages don't change all at once but this eventually changed into the "silver age" or the age of warriors, when royal lines posed as being semi-divine but were usually lines of fighters that needed consecration by religious figures in order to be taken seriously as royalty. This age lasted longer than recent ages but not for as long as the theoretical golden age lasted.
In the bourgeois age, generally associated with liberalism, castes were finally done away with in favor of "social class" which corresponded heavily to the manner in which bourgeois rank each other; that is, who had the most money. This period lasted for less time than the previous age of the warrior lasted, but it did last for longer than the age of the laborer.
In the age of the laborer, generally associated with communism, the people in charge were the head laborers -- task masters if you will -- who manage the other laborers and treat them much like slaves, although ostensibly being a laborer or slave themselves. This era lasted for probably less than a century and was clearly finished once automated labor machines began to emerge, physically ending their centrality.
In the current (probably last in a cycle) age, the underclass is put on top. This accounts not only for gay marriage and attempts to normalize pedophilia, or the concern for the rights of convicted criminals (as if rapists et al. deserve rights), it might also explain the rise of Donald Trump. The person who manages the underclass and vulgarians is naturally going to be the biggest and most powerful vulgarian, someone who succeeded by virtue of his own vulgarity; this is Mr. Trump.
If trends from these observations are correct and hold out for long enough, this age will probably be shorter than the others, perhaps as short as a couple decades. Although Trump stands against many forms of vulgarity he does so by being pretty vulgar himself, so he could be viewed as a nadir of this period.
Radical Traditionalists usually divide history up into "ages" that correspond roughly to the character of the fundamental human castes / activities: royalty, warrior, laborer and (from my point of view) the underclass is also a caste. I think that the length of each age also corresponds to the power associated with those groups, meaning that our current age may be the shortest one.
The "golden age" might be attributed to pre-history or very early historical periods, when human civilization could be said to have begun but there was little to no writing and record keeping.
Ages don't change all at once but this eventually changed into the "silver age" or the age of warriors, when royal lines posed as being semi-divine but were usually lines of fighters that needed consecration by religious figures in order to be taken seriously as royalty. This age lasted longer than recent ages but not for as long as the theoretical golden age lasted.
In the bourgeois age, generally associated with liberalism, castes were finally done away with in favor of "social class" which corresponded heavily to the manner in which bourgeois rank each other; that is, who had the most money. This period lasted for less time than the previous age of the warrior lasted, but it did last for longer than the age of the laborer.
In the age of the laborer, generally associated with communism, the people in charge were the head laborers -- task masters if you will -- who manage the other laborers and treat them much like slaves, although ostensibly being a laborer or slave themselves. This era lasted for probably less than a century and was clearly finished once automated labor machines began to emerge, physically ending their centrality.
In the current (probably last in a cycle) age, the underclass is put on top. This accounts not only for gay marriage and attempts to normalize pedophilia, or the concern for the rights of convicted criminals (as if rapists et al. deserve rights), it might also explain the rise of Donald Trump. The person who manages the underclass and vulgarians is naturally going to be the biggest and most powerful vulgarian, someone who succeeded by virtue of his own vulgarity; this is Mr. Trump.
If trends from these observations are correct and hold out for long enough, this age will probably be shorter than the others, perhaps as short as a couple decades. Although Trump stands against many forms of vulgarity he does so by being pretty vulgar himself, so he could be viewed as a nadir of this period.
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