Proposal for a bloodless revolution
(In progress. I’m not sure this can help, but it’s an idea. Try to change the brains of the operation.)
“Revolution” actually means to go back; it derives from the Latin revolvere, which means “to roll back.” This referred to a circular motion that completes a cycle, returning to where it started.
I propose that by revisiting the origins of modernity, we can improve our political philosophy; we can heal the rift between science and religion; we can move away from the materialist paradigm and towards one where consciousness is primary and God is acknowledged.
(I think the reductively rationalist, materialist paradigm is largely the product of colonialism and exploitation; economic and geopolitical interests have been upstream of intellectual life. He who pays the piper calls the tune.)
Our calendar, the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582, resets every 400 years—that’s how long a leap-year cycle takes. (The sun is exactly 400 times the size and distance of the moon, giving us perfect eclipses, a statistical improbability.)
2020 was the 400th anniversary of two documents which initiated parallel revolutions, from top-down to bottom-up methods in politics and science. The Mayflower Compact was the first document of autonomy and democracy in the New World, and Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum replaced top-down deduction with bottom-up induction.
Then, precisely 400 years later, both science and politics abruptly flipped to top-down technocracy. Bacon’s New Atlantis was the first scientific utopia, the first technocracy in fiction—and his bi-literal cipher was the first binary code, so he is partly to blame there, too.
Bacon was the biggest influence on the French Enlightenment: Voltaire called him “the father of the experimental philosophy” and compared the Novum Organum to a scaffold which enabled the edifice of modern science to be built. The editors of the Encyclopedie wrote “If we make a success of it, we shall owe most to the Chancellor Bacon.” Bacon’s New Atlantis was the first scientific utopia, and his bi-literal cipher was the first binary code, so he is partly to blame there.
As it turns out, Bacon was a unique, once-in-history genius, shaped by intense pressures in his youth. His bi-literal cipher was the first binary code. He has had an immense influence on the modern world, but you probably haven’t heard his name much, until recently. Peter Thiel calls him a liar who wanted to abolish God. On the contrary, he is a proof of God’s existence, and he had deep spiritual knowledge. Thiel says he “dabbled in the demonic” but he was not a sorcerer; his alchemy tracts, published under several pseudonyms, are free from any evil intent.
-taking a break