WIP: Periodization scheme for history based on how we relate to notions of the divine
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How is fear radically different from obey? How were the gods challenged in iron age, exactly?
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Stories like Icarus, Prometheus in Greek tradition and similar ones in other cultures date to that era. Fear+obey are 2 sides of same coin I’d say. By Axial Age the challenges had given way to obedience.
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That's the Western view of things. What's your equivalent for the Indian sequence? 700-300 BC -> Become gods (Ishopanishad, for example)?
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It’s the same actually. By become gods I mean advanced tech, which didn’t happen till modernity anywhere
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1950-2005 - Post Modernity: Kill all remaining gods
(2005: The Singularity is Near is published)
2005-2005 - Become the gods...
(2005: Iraq war obvious outcome pretty much puts this to rest)







