THE 3 AGES OF ART

The evolution of weapons causes an ±800 years cycle of death of civilizations extinguished rhythmically by new ‘weapon radiations’, when the discovery and reproduction of those new weapons carried by warrior hordes, starts an age of war that extends throughout all the Eurasian continent, as hordes of warriors expand their lethal energy, killing people and erasing human cultures. In the graph, the 7 cycles of wars and the weapons that caused them: bronze swords, chariots, iron swords, coins and mercenary armies, spur cavalry, gunpowder and digital weapons. Each of those evolutions of weapons caused the extinction of civilizations in worldwide ages of War.
        
1. The 800 years cycle of war.
The discovery and massive reproduction of new weapons, carried by hordes of symbiotic warriors that spread throughout all the Eurasian continent, causes an ±800 years cycle of extinction of civilizations, as those hordes of warriors conquer, kill and erase all human cultures. The result is the end of the ‘mature age of History’, the Neolithic and the beginning of its 3rd age, the Age of Metals, that imposed the Anti-Ethics of white, Semite and Indo-European, animetal cultures worldwide.
Weapons are discovered and then radiate in great numbers during a short period of ±100 years of World Wars that destroy the old civilizations, starting a new 800 years cycle of ‘modern civilizations’ in which the warrior hordes that control the world with that icon weapon of each cycle become the higher castes of new human cultures. Then after another ±800 years, a new weapon appears in the hands of a new horde of warriors and the previous warrior castes are displaced after another World War age in which the new warrior horde exterminates the old warrior caste, as new top predators extinguish old ones in the biological radiations of the Earth . So the arrival of new weapons shows the fractal zones of History. The median life of those 800 year cycles, around ten times the maximum biological life of a Human being (70-80 years), strongly suggest 2 i, i+1 causes for those war cycles: the biological rhythms of human life that after 10 generations seem to enter in decadence, and the climatic cycles of the Earth, whose periodic ages of hot weather on the steppes create a surplus of nomads, displaced towards the valley cultures. Those massive changes at global scale on the S-T parameters of the planet, similar to the changes of hot to cold weather that caused the reproduction and extinction of living beings, are cyclical action -reactions that man could perfectly manage, if it had the will to control his own future and ensure his survival. But under the anti-Ethic ideologies of warriors who ‘enjoy murder’ and bankers who believe in the ‘Free Market’, that is in letting thing happens according to some esoteric Good God’s will, nothing is done about it. So we accept sheepishly the tragic fate of the war and Holocaust cycle associated to it, (as warriors with new weapons kill go(l)d cultures to loot its wealth , as the temporal regularity of warrior radiations that extinguish civilizations show. Indeed, the repetition of the cycles of birth and extinction by warfare of civilizations in similar dates across the entire old world with a ±800 years periodicity proves, both the lethal nature of weapons, the biological nature of history and the outcome of believing in the anti-ethics of animetal ideologies instead of fostering social love.
The 7x 800 cycles of global war and cultural extinctions were parallel in time in 5 of the 6 historic regions (America excluded because of its isolation). They are the cycle of Bronze Wars (circa 3000 BC), the cycle of Chariot Wars (circa 2000 BC), the Iron Cycle (1200 BC), the Coin Cycle (circa 400 BC), the Stirrup Wars (400 AD), the Gunpowder Wars (1200 AC) and the age of Industrial wars caused by machines, whose more perfect forms are weapons (XX C.)

   22. The 3 ages of Art: the existential wave of historic super-organisms.
As we drew 3 ages for biological organisms, we trace 2 curves of existence for humans and their social organisms, which die when germs or weapons kill them. The cycle of existence of metal-civilizations lasts ±800 years, accelerating the extinction rhythm of Paleolithic and Neolithic societies, since industrial weapons evolve faster.

We have already considered the 3 ages of human individuals, sowe will consider now the 3 ages of cultures, which are made of a collective network of human brains that act as the neurons of a civilization that extends through a geographical body. Since if we consider the 3±1 ages of those civilizations, made of human quanta and a collective subconscious artistic and religious brain, both, i-humans and their i+1 informative networks, go through the same 3 ages proper of any organism.
That cycle of life and death of civilizations can be studied not only through the ‘historic deeds’ of animetals, its battles and kings, its massacres and conquests, but also from the human, ethic and aesthetic perspective that we have chosen in this book, specifically through the mental attitudes of societies, whose ‘collective subconscious’ go through 3 ethic and artistic ages, between the birth and death of their ‘super-organisms’ of history, which are parallel to the ages of an individual human being: a youth of epic, energetic art and literature, a classic, mature age and a baroque age of angst, that creates a formal, prophetic art when the culture foresees its end due to the sickness of war.
Those 3 ages repeat in all the cycles of life and death of civilizations, since Paleolithic hunters showed their angst in the paintings of caves, when warrior bowmen came to hunt them.
In the Age of Metal, the process of extinction accelerates. If the Middle Paleolithic lasted ± 800.000 years since the Homo Floresiensis discovery technology, the Lower Paleolithic ± 80.000 years since the male Y-chromosome expanded throwing weapons, and the Neolithic ±8.000 years, aborted before it reached its maturity by the arrival of Bronze weapons, explained in Genesis, a book of parables wrote in Mesopotamia, at the time Bronze warriors conquer and extinguished the Sumerian civilization, now, civilizations will live and die, when through war another civilization conquers and colonizes the previous civilization only 800 years. And latter on, when Industrial warfare accelerates further the ‘rhythm of creation of technological information’, the rhythm will diminish further to a mere 72 years, the mean age of a human generation, now parallel to the ages of discovery of new ‘machine energies’ swiftly converted into weapons and bombs that cause World Wars. This old hypothesis is now confirmed with the discovery of the Homo Floresiensis and the Y-chromosome marker, proving that history has entered a cyclical, informative vortex of death . Thus, as it happens in the galaxy with a star falling towards a black hole or in any informative process of decay and death, the accelerated war cycles, against which only prophets and artists rebel rhythmically with its ‘bio-ethic and aesthetic angst’, is extinguishing human civilizations that go through the same 3±1 cycles of birth, reproduction, excess of (technological) information and death (by war) of any organism. And we observe that organic cycle of life and death, both in the historic body of the civilizations made of human cells that become destroyed by the sickness of war, and in their collective mind, their art, the genetic ‘memes’ of those civilizations, created through verbal words and visual images, which act as the subconscious collective ‘mind-brain’ and memorial record of those historic civilizations. Since art and verbal thought, the positive, creative, mental arrow of a culture, also goes, as the individual human mind does, through the same process of youth, maturity, informative decadence and death, caused by the sickness of war, of any organism. So we can observe those ‘mental attitudes’ in the 3 fundamental styles of spatial art and temporal, verbal literature, parallel to those 3 ages, which express in this manner the emotions and organic desires of the artists and ‘verbal prophets’, neurons of those civilizations. Then it comes the death of the civilization, which is called ‘war’ that happens with a cyclical, decametric periodicity respect to the life of the individual when the ‘germs’ of history, weapons, multiply and extinguish the civilization. Thus, in the next paragraphs we will summarize the process of death of civilizations by war to all societies and study how the collective mind of those societies, their art, shows always the same pattern of baroque angst when death comes, as an old man does at individual, human level.

    2. The 3 ages of a civilization. A paradigm: the Roman, warrior, Western culture.
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E-pic:‘Vae Victis’ Brenno IV BC.  E=T Classic:‘Live the day’ Horatius I BC

 

 

In the graph the 3 ages of Rome as all other civilizations have done, are reflected in art:

- Max. E: a lineal, epic age of young, energetic art, represented by the Republican Wolferine.

- E=T: An age of sensorial art and clasic poetry.

- Max. T. The Imperial age of decadent, baroque art and prophetic, cynical literature: ‘When a corrupted culture defies all reform, we shall wait its extinction’ Seneca I AD

The 3 ages of Rome, epitome of Western Empires, lasted 797, since its foundation to its extinction, the entire cycle of ‘mercenary iron armies’ paid with coins are well known to historians: Around 400 BC the radiation of iron weapons ends up with the great Celtic Invasions that conquer Rome. Brenno the conqueror affirms ‘Vae Victis’: No compassion for the defeated. It will become the motto of Republican Rome when it conquers Cartage with iron weapons and mercenary armies, erasing it from existence: ‘Carthago Delenda est’ affirms now Cato. Rome becomes an empire of iron and coins, entering its reproductive maturity, always an age of explosive growth that enlarges the empire to cover the entire Mediterranean Basin, thanks to those mercenaries. Yet wealth corrupts the culture, which enters a 3rd baroque age of cruel emperors. Then Germans adopt Roman war techniques and become the backbone of its mercenary armies. When the Huns bring the new weapon, the stirrup cavalry, the Germans adopt it and Alaricus destroys Rome in 456 AC. The Roman Empire became the model of all future Western military empires, providing the myths, icons, repressive laws and alibis to those who will seize power with Imperial eagles and new weapons, pretending to reinstall a millenary Reich, from Spain to Britain to Germany, to America.
Those 3 ages of existence of the Roman civilization show in their informative, collective subconscious, the spatial, visual art and verbal, temporal literature of the Roman Culture, shown in the graph, between its birth and extinction. In art those ages of visual and literary perception are called ‘cultural styles’ that mimic sequentially between the birth and extinction of the civilization the energetic youth, the classic, mature age, and the informative baroque of the 3rd organic age:
- Max. E: Dramatic youth. The youth of any civilization gives birth to a dramatic, epic art, simple in forms, full of energy, as youth is, when a new tribe of warriors founds a new empire. For example, in the Roman civilization of the iron cycle, if we consider its fundamental art, sculpture, it is the age of war symbols, lineal statues like the wolverine and Doric columns .
- E=T: Classic realism. When warriors settle down and civilize it comes a classic age of realist, sensorial art that harmonizes in-form-ation and energy. In Rome it is the golden age of poetry, when Horatius writes his classic poem ‘carpe diem’ and artists create sensorial statues. 
- Max. T: Baroque, prophetic, decadent styles as the culture comes closer to its death. The same happens to men that show in their old age a cynical, pessimist mind, full of spiritual ‘negative wrinkles’ opposed to the energy and happiness of youth. So in Rome it comes a baroque, decadent age of art full of angst; an age of prophecies, when artists, neurons of cultures, see the end of their civilization, as the mind of an old man foresees his death. In Rome, it started with Nero the 1st decadent emperor, when Seneca, his councillor and poet, realizes that Romans have lost the military qualities that made them prevail in their world conquest.
- -1: Finally, the civilization enters a new age of war that extinguishes the culture due to the reproduction of new weapons of mass destruction. Then Fascism (the military vision of reality) reigns supreme. True art is repressed and weapons and war become the main subject of artistic display. It is the age of the lower empire in permanent war with German armies, when it is coined the old Roman motto: ‘You will defend me with the sword and I will defend you with the word’. Finally the civilization disappears, as new barbarians ‘ad portas’ destroy the culture.
Once, the generic case is understood we will consider now all human civilizations, from the Paleolithic to the present American Baroque, through the 3 ages of their art.