there is a saying "history rhymes" and this is easy to see for anyone who has a small grasp on a few thousand years of recorded history

why do patterns of mass movement repeat like this?

many hipster nihilist materialist Science fanatics like to claim that there is no higher order to the universe and whatever happens, happens, there is no rhythm to it, entropy rules

if that were the case, then how come the soft-science of history suggests otherwise?

it should be obvious

the universe is a clockwork machine, of unimaginable complexity

as an scholar of cryptography and coding systems, it is astounding to me just how big the numbers get in these fields, and yet the combinatoric complexity of just a single human being, let alone 8 billion of them multiplying that number further, on top of the even more astoundingly enormous combinations of possibilities of even just our solar system, let alone our galaxy, let alone the entire fucking universe

some like to worship their god of entropy as though their skepticism is teh ultimate shield against the shame of having an original idea, but the number of data points i can muster in favour of the idea that the universe is a mess of wheels within wheels, of simple rules that elaborate to more simple rules that apply on simple things in such massive numbers that our little pattern matching devices between our ears notice this, and yet so many are enamoured of the idiotic idea that it's completely without predictability or rhythm, the universe is a decadent mess, so we should all go push poo and cut our tits off and brag about how much of a victim we are

seriously

there is a 20 year cycle of conjunctions between jupiter and saturn... thus the ever touted "generational" identity politics of millennials, boomers, x, whatever the fuck else

this cycle has a 400 year arc marked by a close conjunction called the Bethlehem Star

our spot in the second-from-outer arm of the galaxy rotates around the centre of this galaxy at a rate of approximately 25000 years, and the phases of this cycle are marked by catastrophes that can be seen amply in dozens of archeaological and geological markers that have been found

it is only chaos if you refuse to see what is patently right in front of us

back in the 60s and 70s it was cool to follow astrology, and then in the 80s to now, all the hipsters are saying that stuff is mumbo jumbo and yet it is an undeniable fact that the several cycles i just described have a determining impact on phenomena with excruciating complexity, but Entropy Rules, Ok?

i expect to be a Cassandra about this but whatever... some people get it and they are interesting people

simulation theory sucks if you pretend there is nobody behind the elaborate system we are inside, and if you don't deny there might be a designer, if you deny that He has a sense of humor and a heart

for those who insist on holding to this dead, meaningless version of a model of reality, go fuck yourself

reality is much more interesting, hopeful, happy, strange, and full of love and great arcs of epochs that we can actually understand, and even death itself is not the end for our little threads