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History hasn’t ended, the tape just has to be reinserted. The simulacrum just hasn’t rewritten itself yet. For those of us who see clearly, it clear that those who scratched their heads when Hegel said history had ended need to rethink the nature of history.

When one has a linear view of time, it is very difficult to get back to point A from point B. However, if one has a cyclical view of time, they bend all time to their dimension. History moves in great cycles, and much like quantum states, must gain enough energy before civilization can progress to the next one. Although the new age will look different than the one before, it is different the way a spiral is different from a circle; certainly each new rotating arm is a new branch, much resembling the old turn but still new .

Baudrillard on the Simulacrum

Now is not just history’s end. Baudrillard also was font of noting in an Eoyore sort of way that this was the case. But that was the attitude of its era, much like the sighs of cabin fever when one is sick of knitting sweaters. From his standpoint in history, both his views and and his theories on the simulacrum seemed a little more fatalistic. But this is a Renaissance, a time of rebirth and rediscovery of the gods and their works. Whereas from his point of view, it seemed that history was ending, now we see that it is beginning anew.

Hegel may have thought history had ended, but then again, his failing was a linear view of time. In fact, the leading theoriest on Hegel, fukuyama, just theorized that history might ahve begun again on September 11. How could history have begun again? If one has a non-linear view of time, they can see the shape of history. Our history goes in cycles. (Diagram). This makes it possible to not only predict history, but to project it.

For those that write history, we know that it may be impossible to capture every fact, but there are essential points. Although Fukuyama is on the right track, it is not so much when as what. On September 11, the United States garnered enough sympathy to usher in a global epoch of peace, with ourselves as the heads. But we were not wise to assume that position, having ignored or forgotten the universal wisdom of the past, (and so we must adopt a Hobbesean approach to empire, in order to even realize Locke’s dream).

What is the singularity? Technology is not the state of affairs. It has caused communication to speed up, and so rhetoric and epistemology come in again. We know that with increase in the speed of communication, the systems of the world our ancestors planned for us have begun to run their course. History isn’t over: The simulacrum must be reknewed. Cicero brought us to this point. Even the Catholic Church, which preserved the order that was Rome, also brought the ancient knowledge into the present day. But the model of hisotry Cicero projected for brought us this far, and he tells us that now is the future. Since he didn’t make history any longer, it us up to us to project a new one, and gain enough momentum to thrust us into a new epoch.. But wiill the future look liek the past? As Jason Moghagheh said to me, “We must make new images.”

[Hyperlink: According to the most integral theoriest on the topic, the next phase in our evolutionary history is a global information age, but is the agrarian state even realized? There is a reason why at this point the world is in a state of such war. The Republic of the United States, the Republic of Iran, and Iraq, the People’s Republic of China. As we go into the new age, we must remember that we did not fully achieve the consciousness point before last, the agrarian state. The reason we did not truly realize the lesson of the Republic was because it fell to Caesar, although Cicero managed to preserve it, and the knoweldge, fudging the consciousness point, in his text. St. Augustine wrote his City of God over the Republic, so the document was not discovered until the 19th century. My rhetoric is needed as much as ever, to fix the corruption of the information in people’s minds.

With true understanding comes the enlightenment.The renaissance must necessarily be a revival of the classical knowledge and a reminder of universal truths.New modes of communication bring in new possibilities for government, both democratic and republican. People can debate online, and also opens up possibiliest for global dialogue. The singularity improves voting,a dn thus the republic. Their voting system also was unequal, as more votes were denominated to the senatroes because they were supposed to vote for the republic. but overr time the system became corrupt. Now, with the internet, we have not just the pwoer to vote electronically, but the power ot come together democratically on line wihtout fighting ove whose what (to see if one makes hte people, democacy, the base, replacing the point of necessity posed to the republic like cars) with a republic/mixed constitutional system in cotnol to check democacy’s tendency towads dictatory.The singularity strengthens our democracy via online voting. So with the advent of the singualrity, the last phase in our evolutionary history only know bevcomes possible.

For with the launch of an afterculture, histoy certainly isn’t done being played, not even by a republic. And we are a republic. With the singularity, the simulacrum becomes both visible and possible to learn from. Integral historians are cropping up all over. So with the rise of the global informational age, the agrarian state is now manifest and can be used. Now at last democracy can take its holy place in the republic. With the speed up of communication, democracy became possible. Now the people can take its place in the republic, replcing black gold, and fullfilling the prophecy of the mixed constitutional system, making a just republic (for a republic which is not just is not a republic).

EVOLUTION OF GOVERNMENT THROUGHOUT THE AGES

Although the vanguard took up the campagin so many years ago that we’re reaching,s orry it took us so long, being esoteric. we were somewhat delayed by augustine, 2007 and but the shit of state has carried us nonetheless. Now is the future but as I pointed out with the vanguard, there is the ship of state has carried us this far, dropped us on the shores of a sivler devestation. Here is where we need wisdom to pass.

Even as with the internnet we sweep the mat out from under the feet of the administration that attempted to usurp our republic, we have access to the knowledge to preventing such a thing from happening again. This is rightly a Renaissance and the launch of a golden age. As we rediscover the beauty of the ancient authors, our new ability to understand them will balance our fall, preserve our state from collapse, saving our civilization, an important stepping stone in our further quest for meaning.

First we must use to learn our republic.Platonic ideal is fulfilling itself, the repbulic is now possible. To predict the future, we must look to the past as a model. In our unbalanced system, teh president has the right to veto, but in rome, it was the tribute of the plebs with this right. The office was won only afte the people walked out of rome, leaving the city to the nobilites or senetes, but empty of people. So this was a Rome with a people stronger than us. More educated than us. They demanded a republic with checks and balances.