This document discusses the decline of Western civilization since the Enlightenment era, tracing how two world wars, the Holocaust, and the Cold War spread positivism globally and led to increasing relativism and instability. It notes how since 2001 there has been rapid simultaneous radical changes to politics, economy, technology, ecology, and society, leaving the world in a dystopian state of cascading dissolution by 2018.
2. Christocentric Wester n Civilization in
deformation via anthropocentric Positivistic
e t h o s o f E n l i g h t e n m e n t c . A . D . 1 7 5 0 .
3. Loss and suffering
o f t h e S e c o n d
Thirty Years’ War
(1914-45) further
r a d i c a l i z e s
transvaluation of
v a l u e s .
(T he Holocaust
v i e w e d a s
atheistic amoral
c l i m a x o f
E n l i g h t e n m e n t
P o s i t i v i s m . )
4. E n s u i n g ‘ T h i r d - Wo r l d ’ Wa r ( A . D . 1 9 4 5 - 8 9 ) - -
[i . e . , The Cold War] devolved globalization
o f E n l i g h t e n m e n t P o s i t i v i s m .
5. D e c a d e o f R e l a t i v i s t i c
S t a s i s ( A . D . 1 9 9 0 - 2 0 0 0 ) .
6. From A.D. 2001: rapid radical deformations
s i m u l t a n e o u s l y o f g l o b a l p o l i t y,
economy, techne, ecology, and society.