Waves

Paradox2140:Progress

A History of Societies' Paradoxes

Every soci­ety faces para­dox. Our lives typ­ify para­dox. Being an ani­mal that knows it will die makes our lives ironic from birth. Every 495 year Neptune-Pluto wave con­tains a unique para­dox. 85BCNeptune-Pluto409, coin­ci­dent with the Roman Empire, con­stantly returned to the real­ity that the armies that made Rome so strong, also led to their down­fall. Every­one wanted to be Roman. Rome needed sol­diers to gar­ri­son its ever widen­ing sphere. The best way to become a Roman cit­i­zen came through fight­ing as a Roman. Even­tu­ally, even split­ting Rome in two could not help it com­pletely man­age its realms.

The last com­plete Neptune-Pluto wave, 1399Neptune-Pluto1892. intro­duced us to Progress, but as is com­mon with each Neptune-Pluto period, the intro­duc­tion came at the end of the wave, leav­ing the para­dox for us to pon­der. The mid­point of our present wave 1893Neptune-Pluto2384 appears near 2140, thus, the name Paradox2140. Mid­points always reveal the true nature of every Neptune-Pluto wave giv­ing  us a date to aim for. Until then. the plethora of top­ics gives us plenty to discuss.

Progress, on its own, pro­vides enough of a para­dox, but its foun­da­tion of sec­u­lar­ism and the fact ours is the first wave where we expect, even demand Progress, adds many dimen­sions to this sur­vey. Like Progress, Paradox2140:Progress will never be com­plete. Nor do I expect this analy­sis or its accom­pa­ny­ing mindmap to con­tain a com­plete pic­ture. You may agree with some, none or all of what I present here. But a para­dox sel­dom offers a cor­rect answer, but many choices.

The Inter­ac­tive Part

Paradox2140 lays out the future by cat­a­loging the present and the imme­di­ate past. Sub­cat­e­gories to Progress: Resources, New Moral­ity, Sci­ence & Tech­nol­ogy, Infor­ma­tion Over­load, Sus­tain­abil­ity and One World all speak to issues of our time. It requires only a few min­utes with a search engine to dis­cover the many dis­cus­sions, seen from all types of dif­fer­ent posi­tions and ide­olo­gies, sur­round­ing these topics–no one could ever claim com­plete exper­tise in any of these cat­e­gories or sub­cat­e­gories. But I am cer­tain that most can add their opin­ion or insight on one or more of these. To add com­men­tary or claim greater com­mand if a topic, a reader only need become a mem­ber of this blog. Additionally, the many dis­cus­sions offer the oppor­tu­nity to fea­ture links to other des­ti­na­tions on the web or to pur­chase related mate­r­ial. Expect reviews of all types of media, lists and how­tos that encour­age deeper immer­sion.

The Start of a Process

Paradox2140 only begins a process. As you can see in the accom­pa­ny­ing dia­grams, each Neptune-Pluto wave con­tains five five check­points, the quad­ra­ture align­ments that show when one planet changes direc­tion rel­a­tive to another planet. The pro­por­tions we see with the 495 period defined by con­junc­tions between Nep­tune and Pluto are the same we see monthly, in the form of weeks (adopted from the lunar cycle); in busi­ness, through quar­terly and fis­cal reports; and in nature through sea­sons of the year. Mea­sur­ing His­tory, at its core, sim­ply applies these same divi­sions to chunks of time that match the scale of his­tory, ie., decades, cen­turies and (half) mil­len­ni­ums. Using the outer plan­ets, that appear in the same scale as above pro­vides a built in matrix, retrieved objec­tively.
This fea­ture pro­vides the ben­e­fit of work­ing exactly the same across time. Every check­point in the dia­gram, which rep­re­sents devel­op­ments, the his­tory, between each date, relates to every other check­point and to the theme of the over­all wave, in the case, Progress.

A long way of say­ing its pos­si­ble to pre­dict the future, but Paradox2140 does more than that, as evi­denced by the study’s divi­sion into the cat­e­gories above. This is not Nos­tradamus vaguely stat­ing the future in verse. Instead, we see a new way eval­u­ate how the present influ­ences the future. What we do about Sus­tain­abil­ity deter­mines what hap­pens from now through 2384. The check­points, the quad­ra­ture align­ments, pro­vide extra means to mea­sure progress in the cat­e­gories or subcategories.

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