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RE: Late Stage Capitalism & Historical Prophecies
Humans, in general, have always placed themselves at the center of spacetime. Past calender conventions established temporal reference to founding of an insignificant city-state, even less significant reign of some egotist, and, beginning with the Arab-Muslim empire, regional religious establishment.
Marxist and neo-liberal conception of spacetime "ending" with their ultimate victory is just another egotist bias regarding the universe. Even the "conventional" historical narrative consigns the past as but a prelude to current utopic times: "ancient," "Dark" Ages, "Middle" Ages, "modern" times, etc. History seems to be an illustration of man's egotism writ large across perceived spacetime.
Absolutely spot on. Much of my life has been an intellectual backlash against anthrocentric ideas- it's what attracted me to existentialism as a teenager (not nihilism- I'm too much of a cheerful dork for that), it's a big part of what attracted me to the study of geology now. The geological timescale is the least human centric timescale, where a million years is super short term.