Time to move beyond the original idea for this blog: the date 1848 is used in World History And The Eonic Effect is a sense far broader than the political, and this blog is needed for a while as a general history and modernity site.
As will become clear in the event.
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We can reset the tone with the following passage from World History And The Eonic Effect:
1848: End of Eonic Sequence?
1848: End Of Eonic Sequence?
We reach the end of our eonic sequence, as our model forces a distinction of the early modern and the new period at the end of this transition as the new system comes into play. The rough year 1848 is useful, for we can see that this is the first point at which one could begin to clearly perceive the eonic effect (although Swift et al. already senses it in the Battle of Ancients and Moderns, along with Kant, and Hegel). And who do we find here but Marx and Engels generating either a revised liberalism, or else a ‘general TP4 exception’? Our discrete freedom sequence seems to end up an indiscrete Whiggocracy and to have some unfinished business. Not surprising. Whenever there is a Leveller a True Leveller can’t be far behind.