>>20812211Imagine it like this: The earth is a stage upon which an act is playing out. There are a certain number of things that are predetermined or at least courses of action that are most likely to occur from the outset, but if you don't play your part in the act, everything will collapse.
And anyway, I'm not talking about predictive ability. This is a well-traveled subject that Spengler and others like Hesiod had noted for thousands of years.
Civilizations are living organisms and display the same morphological sequences as organisms. We are born, we mature, we bear fruit and produce products, we grow old, and we eventually die. You can say whatever in response to that; I've heard it all before. You can say that it's cynical to think that way, but it's true. You can say that I'm trying to simplify history or predict the future, I'm not doing either one. You can say that I'm excusing the Jews, and I'm not doing that either.
Really what you have a problem with is assigning an order to what you perceive as chaos. But it is well observable to the studied eye. Every single civilization was born as a child is born, grew old as a man grows old, and eventually, all of them died. And no civilization has lasted forever. Civilizations have a 100% mortality rate, same as man. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't bother creating as that's untrue, or that nothing means anything because that's untrue as well, but it just means that you should understand that we've seen this before and because of the part of the cycle we're in, we can know roughly what to expect and how to react because of this.
