How Long The Fall
We thought our civilization was flying, but we were just in free fall
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If we’re going to put a date on the end times, Hindu cosmology has the most educated guess. The Kali Yuga (the worst) started around 3,000 years ago and has nearly 430,000 years left. I won’t get into details I don’t know, but suffice it to say, it’s not a bad guess. Many scientists date our fall to the rise of agriculture to around 10,000 years ago. Every local civilization built around ‘mining the soil’ has collapsed, a global civilization just collapses globally. Give or take, 3,000 years is a fair guess as to when things started going downhill, which we perceived as growth because we were getting there faster. That start of the end date also roughly matches (the also rough) Axial Age, when sages notably started complaining.
If you read Confucius from around 2,500 years ago, he said, “I am not someone who was born with knowledge. I simply love antiquity, and diligently look there for knowledge.” This is terrifying because I’m reading Confucius through like 800 footnotes and have no idea what he’s referring to as ‘antiquity’. Today feels so much more fallen than the Axial Age, but we seem to have been falling from before then. When you read the ancients it’s striking how much they…
