III. The Global Hierarchies
The global hierarchies are also three-tiered, but the
cultures are drawn entirely from political peoples. In the
ancient age of historical childhood, associated with male roots
and the creed of race, the political and economic positions of
the hierarchy were occupied by European cultures, while the
middle social slot was occupied by a secondary male-rooted
Eastern culture. In the medieval age of historical youth,
associated with female roots and the creed of religion, the
political and economic positions were occupied by Eastern
cultures, while the social slot was occupied by a secondary
female-rooted European culture. In the modern age of historical
adulthood, associated with unisexual roots and the creed of
reason, all the three positions in the hierarchy are meant to be
occupied by the Universals. History, however, unfolded
differently.
The Globals
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Modern age |
Medieval age |
Ancient age |
Political |
Millennials |
Mughals |
Macedonians |
Social |
Americans |
Franks |
Egyptians |
Economic |
English |
Arabians |
Israelites |
We find that in the modern age, the economic and social
positions of the hierarchy are occupied by people of European
stock : the English and the Americans. The world did not evolve the historically modern-rooted people of the Universal
stock to occupy these two positions.
Human history contains two pre-modern ages - the medieval and
ancient – and one modern age. There is, therefore, a two-to-one
historical asymmetry : an imbalance of the presence of cultural
realities and representations. And the effect of this on the
modern age has been its historical atavism, or regression, which
has caused a crisis of identity of the modern world.
This reality is reflected in the discrepancy of the global
hierarchy in the modern age : the medievally atavistic English
became the predominant industrial imperialist – imperialism
being a prominently medieval phenomenon. While the anciently
atavistic Americans emerged as the foremost industrial militarist - militarism relates
particularly to the ancient age, where warring was a way of
life.
Here a question arises as to why both the atavistic positions
in the hierarchy had to be occupied by two Western cultures,
instead of being divided between a male-rooted Western culture
and a female-rooted Eastern culture. The atavistic crisis of
history as reflected in the unavailability of unisexual-rooted
people for the modern age global hierarchy is essentially
biological/racial in nature. And as race is associable with male
roots, so it came to be people of that reality who embodied the
two atavistic positions of the hierarchy. Nevertheless, it is
observed that the medievally atavistic English have produced
more politically powerful women than the anciently atavistic
Americans, because of the medieval-female roots association.
Enlightenment of identity comes only through a crisis of
identity. Enlightenment happens from both within the crisis –
evolutionarily, and in the resolution of the crisis – as an
evolutionary event. Just as with the crisis of the modern world,
its enlightenment is reflected in the global hierarchy. With the
English, enlightenment comes from within the crisis – through
their language : English is the language of enlightenment. With
the Americans, enlightenment is in the resolution of the crisis
- through the application of physical logic : involving the
understanding of the universe, its spacetime structure, and the
nature of its past and implication for its future
Finally, enlightenment through life itself is to happen
through the evolutionary emergence of the Millennials.
One significant aspect of the global hierarchy is the India
connection. The two pre-modern political cultures of the
hierarchy have optimally reflected the creeds of their
respective historical ages in relation to India : the ‘racial’
Macedonians raided north-western India in the ancient age; the ‘religious’ Mughals
ruled from central India
in the medieval age. From this geographically eastward movement
of history, it may be inferred that the ‘rational’ Millennials
are to be revealed from north-eastern India in the modern age.
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