THE 800 CYCLE OF ART AND WAR.
I Age: Epic, Arrogant II Age: Sensorial, Logic III Age: Baroque, extinctive
Mykerinos, 2548 BC Tomb, V dynasty ±2100 BC Horus, God of the Dead
I Mykerinos, It was a good land. Figs were in it, ‘Yesterday is gone.
Son of Ra-Amon and grapes. It had more wine than water. There is not today.’
Lord of the World... Sinuhe ±2000 Bc Book of the Dead ±1600 Bc
1. The 7 cycles. The bronze radiation: ±3000 BC <=>±2000 BC.
Those ages of massive global wars started when Bronze, the first hard metal used in the construction of weapons, was discovered. Bronze weapons brought the first empires around –3000 BC. Bronze was probably discovered in South Egypt that unified with Northern Egypt into a single Empire. While Sargon called himself in Mesopotamia ‘The lord of the 4 corners of the Universe’. The arrival of bronze weapons allowed military castes to control for the first time in history huge numbers of people that feared the massive deaths that the new weapons might cause and obeyed them. It is the beginning of organized empires that displace the milder, paradise life of Neolithic villagers, focused in nature and the human senses (age of Goddesses and fertility cults reflected in the Genesian myth).
We can distinguish between the birth and extinction of Egypt, 3 ages in the art of its Bronze cycle:
- Max. E: The epic age of Empire building when the I dynasty of military warriors coming from the south unifies the country. Art is simple, lineal. Arrogant warriors obsessed by death build pyramidal tombs of growing size, and hieratic self-portraits of Pharaohs, seen as God by the power of the sword (In the graph, the Mikerinos Group).
- E=T: Yet after Egyptian pharaohs settle down to a pleasant life, wealth spreads to other social castes. It is the brief period of classic, realist art, epitomized by the V Dynasty with its smaller tombs decorated with beautiful, realist paintings of human goods and classic literary pieces like Sinuhe, which narrates the transition between the classic age and the decadent period:
- Max. T: At the end of the Bronze Age, a period of disorder, corruption and new wars starts again, when foreign invaders with new chariot weapons take over the delta. Wealth plummets and the country enters a baroque age of war, ‘moving back to the past’. The cult to death and resurrection dominates the culture: the Books of the Death; the myth of Osiris brought to life by her wife Isis into a better, imaginary world; and the portraits of Horus, God of the Dead, become the most popular religions, substituting the epic cult to Ra, the father of all pharaohs. Those 3 ages and religious icons will become the recurrent ages of the Egyptian civilization every 800 years.
2. The chariot Radiation: ±2000 BC <=>±1200 BC.
Jews pass Red sea and conquer Israel, Solomon’s temple:wealth, Jewish King kisses Assyrian captor
I Age: Simple, epic, arrogant Classic Age: sensorial, realist III Age: baroque, extinctive
‘God chose the Treasure People’ Exodus. ‘Feed me with kisses’ Solomon. ‘Vanity, all is vanity’ Eclesiastes
After the age of bronze swords comes the age of Indo-European and Semitic hordes with war chariots (from ±2000 BC until ±1500 BC). Military power moves from Egypt to Mesopotamia, a nation surrounded by hostile, mountainous warrior hordes that repeatedly invade the fertile rivers. Semites and Indo-Europeans evolve lineal bronze (swords) into cyclical weapons (chariots wheels). In all those empires the warrior aristocracy makes the chariot their icon-weapon. Kings are buried with chariots and horses and those chariots appear in all artistic representations. The entire society becomes a machine of war, fully dedicated to the industrial reproduction of those chariot weapons that have displaced infantry. Their speed and mobility expands the wave of charioteers along the Eurasian steppe conquering first Western European cultures, then Indian cultures and finally the Chinese Neolithic world. In the past years, it has been found a Sh’ang’s Royal tomb with a chariot and an Indo-European skull.
An industrial system of chariots’ production creates in Northern Mesopotamia, in Assur, the purest lineal war culture till date. Its lineal art full of energy and violence, depictures weapons, arrogant conquerors and torture as the essence of life. Meanwhile in Levante, a culture of caravaneers opposes the power of lineal weapons with cyclical Go(l)d. It is the cananean culture of Phoenicians and Jewish tribes, the Hicsos, chariot invaders that abandon Egypt and colonize Israel (Hicsu>Hebrew? or perhaps Hapiru from the Sumerian, ‘wanderers, caravaneers’). In the graph we show the 3 cultural ages of the Goldiron Jewish culture, with a prophetic, arrogant, epic, dramatic age, when the warrior leader Moses leads them out of Egypt as ‘the only Chosen People of God’, followed by a classic age of pleasure-seeking kings epitomized by Solomon who builds a beautiful palace and writes love songs; to end in an age of war confrontation with the rival empire of Asur that will conquer Jerusalem and oblige his king to kiss the feet of the new emperor. It is the law of action -reaction that affects once and again those arrogant tribes and religions which consider themselves apart from the body of history, mankind. We will consider latter a detailed analysis of the Jewish-Phoenician Gold cultures, the main civilization born in this age, since it has lasted till today and it is the origin of the economic ecosystem.
3. The Iron Radiation: ±1200 BC <=>±500 BC.
Noble Ajax don’t treat me as I only know If we make men horny
a woman that can’t fight I know nothing and take them to bed
cause I have tasted the blood Thales,Classic Realism. VI BC they will stop making war
and glory of the sword Euripides Trojans. 3rd age Satyr V BC
Homer, Epic, Young Poetry. IX BC
Around 1400 BC Germanic, Celtic hordes start mass production of iron swords. In Turkey the Hittite Empire collapses, but its smiths flee and teach Assyrians the use of iron. So of war and destruction starts a chain reaction , as warrior waves move West to Iberia and East to Greece and Asia. In ±1150 Dorians destroy Mycenae. ‘People of the Sea’ attack Egypt. Ramses II and III fight invaders but can’t prevent the collapse of the Middle Empire. Only Assyrians, who professionalize iron armies, resist and recreate their empire. The Old World splits between European and Asian tribes that will fight once and again new cycles of war: Greeks Vs Persians, Romans Vs Parthians, Spaniards Vs Turkish. In India, Aryan invaders arrived during the Chariot cycle reinforce their power with new iron weapons, conquering the Deccan Southern Plains. Yet iron doesn’t arrive to China where the understanding of space=Yang and time=Yin reaches with Taoism a level unsurpassed in human history, showing that ‘knowledge’ does not require technology, which often deforms our vision of reality.
4. Coin radiation. ±600 BC; ±410 AD.
The oldest warrior cultural tradition of the West is Rome I horizon, which has been imitated by many cyclical European civilizations. It gave origin to European ideologies, rituals and icons of warrior and banker civilizations from Britain to Nazi Germany, from Imperial eagles to civil architecture. Rome is fundamental to understand the Western World, since it is the origin of all myths and alibis for further Warrior empires, that could seize power, pretending to reinstall a new Rome. Rome is parallel to Assur, the master of war of the Verbal, Bronze age. Because gold-iron races die, but its products and its rituals continue, there is in fact a continuity of rituals from Assur to Persia, to Macedonian empires, to Roman, to European empires. So much for racial superiority: the race dies in wars and Holocausts. The product stays. The Roman cycle is accurate; I believe irrefutable. As the cycle of Rome II Horizon that lasted 798 years Byzantium, new Capital, after the destruction of Rome in 410, till 1208, when it was looted by Venice).
Around ±560 BC a new weapon is found according to the S-T duality between lineal, moving, energetic and cyclical, informative forms. Thus if humans first discovered lineal bronze swords and then cyclical chariot wheels, now the duality repeats. So we move from lineal iron swords to cyclical money, which substitutes words as the new language of social power. Money is able to organize huge mercenary armies and further professionalizes war. Now huge empires (Persian, Macedonian, Roman Empire) are built using that money, the nervous/informative system of ever growing Warrior empires. ‘Pecunia bellum nervi’ says Tacitus, when at the height of the coin radiation Roman Legions conquer the world.
5. The Middle Ages. The Stirrup and iron-horse Radiations: 410 AD, 1208 AD.
In the West, the Huns, Nomad warriors able to shoot with arrow bows while galloping, thanks to the stirrup discovered in Korea; and the Germans who add iron protections to their horses, annihilate the Roman-Christian Empire, plummeting once more the standards of life of mankind.
In the East, between 317 AD and 589 AD they break China into sixteen warrior kingdoms, controlled by Huns and Turks. In 430 White Huns invade and conquer India.
Then Semite and Chinese Warriors learn to build stirrups and counterattack with a higher quantic social mass, pushing backwards Germanic and Mongolian tribes. They create the biggest organized empires based on cavalry, (Arab and T’ang empires). Meanwhile Germanic hordes dissolve back into multiple tribal nations, origin of modern European states (Middle Age Europe.) Their civilization is built around the ‘horse man’ that sees himself ‘higher’ than the rest of humanity because he mounts a horse. If there is a Quantic Spaces-Times law that man never fails to obey is the Galilean Paradox. Any excuse is good enough to make us the center of the World, the Only Chosen of God, the most intelligent species; when we are nothing more than dust of space-time. In that epic age barbarians plummet the level of wealth achieved by Christianity. Then they become converted to social love. So Europe enters the ethic, classic age of Christianity, once Germanic tribes are ‘civilized’, (High Middle Ages). In the old Roman Empire, where Christianity had already civilized the last Emperors, French, Italian and Spanish priests hold power in a higher degree than in Northern Europe. So there Gothic art and human goods flourish. In Al-Andalus, Spain, Judaism, Christianity and Islam understand for the first and last time that they represent the 3 prophetic ages of the same God and live in peace, reaching the height of western mysticism (Kabala, Sufism, Spanish mystiques). Indeed, if Moses is the epic, energetic prophet of western, subjective Gods, Christ is the balanced, reproductive, loving prophet, son of God, the Wor(l)d that became man, revealed in the ‘Book’; and Muhammad is the informative master, which stresses the importance of that Wor(l)d, forbidding images, as he rightly affirms he is the ‘last of the Prophets’; and now man has to build up a collective God. But as kings take power over the Pope in Europe and Ali, the peaceful Caliph is killed by the warrior dynasty of the Umayyads and Abbasids, religion becomes once more the excuse for inquisitorial war.
Those final days of social religions left the great cathedrals - optimistic buildings full of light, looking upwards to God, built by the collective effort of a people which, unlike in Romanesque churches, no longer fear the violence of barbarians. Those gothic cathedrals and Mosques seem to confirm a wealthy way of life in the lower Middle Ages, with fewer wars and abundance of human goods. Population doubles in Europe and cities grow. In the Eastern World the old cultures of the sentient Universe (Taoism and Buddhism) reach a new apogee (Gupta, Song empires). Yet the invention of gunpowder will annihilate this re-birth of human sensorial, ethical and artistic cultures.
The fundamental civilization of this age is Islam, which extends over the entire Semitic region, establishing a division in the West between the 3 main Subjective Gods of History: the Indo-Europeans will become Christians, the Semites will become Muslims and in-between them the mixed Semite/European Jewish culture, will create a trading network origin of the modern economic ecosystem , latter studied in more detail. In the next graph, we use an architectural example from Islam and Christianity, Mosques and Cathedrals to show that parallelism between both human cultures, whose art go through the same 3 styles and 3 ages:
- Max. E: In the beginning of the Middle Ages, Cathedrals and Mosques are flat, simple, similar to fortresses, acting as refuge against invading hordes.
- In the Lower Middle Ages, they grow in height and light towards their informative God, reaching a classic, harmonic beauty, as the Western world enters a long period of peace.
- Yet as gunpowder brings again the 4 riders of Apocalypse, temples become baroque, ornamental, loosing the purity of its ‘high’ mystique feeling.
Kairuan, VII AD Corduba Mosque XI C Alhambra, XV C
I Age: Epic, Dramatic II Age: Sensorial, Logic III Age: Baroque, Extinctive
Romanic Cathedral Classic gothic: Chartres, Ornamental: Saint Chappelle
Roy Diaz entered Burgos, This carpenter had lately wed a wife ‘Why does not the pope empty
with sixty pennons strong. Whom loved better than his life; purgatory for the sake of holy
‘God, what a noble vassal, She was come to eighteen years of age. Love and need of the souls
if he had a worthy lord Jealous he was and held her close in cage. That are there, if he redeems
Mio Cid, XI C, For she was wild and young, and he was old, an infinite number of souls
Epic literature Deemed himself as like to be cuckold. For the sake of miserable money?
Canterbury Tales, Chaucer, XIV C Luther. XVI C
Realist Literature On the corruption of the Church
6. An architectonic example of quantic, organic space-time. A home
Organic architecture, defined by Wright, relates the form and function of the 3 zones of a Non-AE space-time. In the picture his home and its 3 Non-AE zones: the intermediate space, the informative, moving singularity, Wright himself, and the external membrane.
Not only artistic forms go through the 3 horizons of any Fractal Organism in time, but according to duality they can also be described in space as Fractal Organisms with 3 organic regions. So an architectural building is a 4-dimensional space-time field where man becomes the informative singularity surrounded by an energetic building membrane that limits an intermediate space-time. Let us then make a short halt in our imperial path to observe the delights of artistic creation…
Architecture is the main human art of space-time creation. It surpasses painting and sculpture because it has a temporal dynamic element, the human beings that occupy the building. And it surpasses film, an art of bidimensional information, because it has also energy dimensions. Hence it occupies a wider spatial range using all forms and materials that allows architecture to include pieces of all those other arts within its form. And even so, it continues to be a human art, concerned with the creation of a quantic space-time where human beings, ‘the central, informative singularities’ of any architectural space-time, absorb energy and information as any singularity does.
So we define any architectural building as a Non-AE space-time with 3 ‘organic’ regions:
- Max. E: An external, hard membrane that sustains the building and separates the architectonic discontinuous space-time from the outer world. And an internal structure of support, which should be made, as Wright affirms, of the same material than the walls, forming together an organic unit. Finally, that membrane should isolate and protect the building, having enough apertures, windows and doors, to allow the free flow of energy and information between the inner and outer world.
- E=T: It isolates and shapes an intermediate, organic space, where men develop their activities, in which both, energy quanta (utilities) and informative elements (furniture, informative objects) have to be in formal balance with the spatial structure and be functional to be used by…
- Max. T: The human informative ‘singularity’ that inhabits the architectural space in time.
Thus contrary to common belief, it is more important the inner, intermediate space than the external, perceivable walls or membrane of the building. Since what truly matters is the human group that uses an architectonic space to perform a certain temporal function, which has to be in harmony with the spatial form of the building. So the great architects of any age tried to liberate that inner space: gothic architects created an inner ‘tall’ space; Renascence masters, Bruneschelli and Michelangelo, create an inner space of human proportions; while modern masters, Le Corbusier and Wright, were concerned with destroying inner walls, leaving a ‘free’, integrated, dynamic space, where humans and machines could perform their cyclical functions (work spaces, industrial design).
The great architects of history tried to harmonize function and form, recognizing the division of any architectonic work in those 3 Non-AE zones, proper of any Quantic Spaces-Times field, from a cell to a galaxy.
For example, if we observe the external membrane of a gothic cathedral, it seems to us ugly, because it is only concerned with structural problems. So its huge walls and thick, external arches have a dual goal: to isolate and protect the ‘house of God’ and to empty the inner space of the cathedral to create is this manner a growing height dimension of information that elevates the spirit of the human herd of believers towards the highest point where the mystique singularity of God or its human representative, the priest, high in the pulpit, resides. So the cathedral has an external membrane, a mass of human believers, its intermediate quanta, and an invisible, ‘high’, central, informative singularity, the ‘God’ that transmits its informative code through verbal books read by the priest on the altar or pulpit. In those temples God’s representative, the priest, is the informative element that dominates the energy quanta of the collective subconscious, the believers, who create the membrane of the Cathedral. When the renaissance, individualist merchants and warriors, forgot the collective ‘God’, and made man his own God, the form of buildings changed, acquiring individual, human proportions to suit the needs of the new dominant, informative singularities. Today, as we substitute humans by machines, the new protagonist of a growing global space-time – the economic ecosystem – again buildings are designed as factories that suit the needs of those machine’s quanta that are shaping a new, global Non A-E space-time territory. So after the age of cathedrals it came the gunpowder age of human masters and then the age of machines, when Gropius and Le Corbusier affirmed that factories are the models of ‘functional architecture’. And so no longer man or its social gods will be the center of history. Only a few human masters, like Gaudi or Wright built for social gods and human pleasure.
7. The Gunpowder Age: ± 1200 AD, 1945 AD. The 80 years cycle of national power.
The age of chivalry and social gods ended when the Chinese Taoists discovered gunpowder. Mongols learnt to manufacture it after conquering Beijing and spread their use to the Western world.
In 1204 Venetians loot Byzantium, opening the East to the Italians who soon build the first gunboats. In 1222 the Mongols defeat the Russians at Kalka and invade Germany. Soon Germans learn to make gunpowder. In 1258 Hulagu massacres Baghdad. It is the end of the Muslim Empire.
In Europe the gunpowder wave provokes an age of civil wars, like the 100 years war in France. War causes poverty and scarcity of Human Goods, provoking massive famines and the expansion of the Black Pest that kills a ¼th of the European population. Yet, once Europeans learn to live with war they expand worldwide their new weapons. Thus, the new cycle of gunpowder weapons will be the age of Europe, which expands its empires throughout the world thanks to the power of its gunboats and artillery. In the middle point of the gunpowder cycle, around 1600, Galileo writes a treatise on Ballistics, measuring the parables of cannonball trajectories, which becomes the foundational book of AE-Physics, and spatializes time as a dimension of ‘speed’: V=S/T . It is the birth of the scientific method, different from the experimental method based in facts, discovered by Aristotle. Since what AE-Science postulates is that knowledge cannot be based in human senses and verbal languages but only in sensorial machines and its digital languages, which are deemed more accurate than human eyes and verbal words in the description of space and time. Which might be certain, but provokes a constant evolution of temporal and spatial machines, from clocks to computers and from telescopes to cameras, which are making obsolete human minds. When the Jewish-Protestant culture applies also the scientific ideology to economics, North-European societies substitute human, ethic values by financial values, since Calvin considers digital money ‘the intelligence of Go(l)d’, and so modern slavery, the valuation of humans with money, is born. At the same time, VOC, the 1st ‘company-mother’, starts mass production of gunboats, the 1st industrial machines and invents paper-money, creating the modern economic ecosystem. So weapons’ companies substitute warriors, scientists substitute priests and money substitutes the word as the new energy, information and reproductive networks of the Earth. So economical nations will substitute religious civilizations, becoming the new super-organism of History, which accelerates its informative evolution thanks to those new sensorial machines, entering in the 3rd age of History in which we live.
Now the new wave of gunpowder weapons carried by European nations and their gunboat companies spreads worldwide, extinguishing all rival civilizations, and shortening the cycle of World Wars to a mere 80 years. Since the devolution of History has started and so now cultural organisms decrease in size from civilizations back into tribal nations; and so happens to its cycles of existence that decrease in a surprising decametric scale to a mere 80 years, in a process parallel to the process of ‘death and resurrection’ of mystique, social Gods.
Thus, in each 80 years gunpowder sub-cycle a European country became the world power thanks to its gunpowder weapons. Then it went through the same 3 ages of a classic civilization reduced now to 3 human generations. And finally it ended, becoming destroyed in a new World War by a raising economic and imperial, rival nation that substituted the old nation on top of the world military power… only to fall again after another 70-80 years period. From now on, a World Top Predator civilization is no longer defined in cultural terms by its mass number of ‘believers’ and degree of verbal evolution as Judaism, Christianity or Islam were; but in terms of information (money): Max.T (financial power) x Max.E (military power)=Top Predator Nation.
Thus European nations with better gunpowder weapons and bigger gold reserves like Holland or England become world top predators, conquering huge civilizations like India.
So we can subdivide the 800 years of the gunpowder cycle, according to the decametric scale, in 3x3±1=10 sub-cycles of ±70-80 years of national power in which economic power moves from:
- Youth: Humanist age or Italian culture and its 3 leading city-nations (Venice, Genoa, Firenze) into: - Maturity: Catholic Europe and its 3 leading nations (Portugal, Spain and France) into:
- 3rd informative, age: Northern European, Protestant culture and its 3 leading nations (Holland, England and Germany), dominated by its cult to Go(l)d, machines and digital languages.
- +1: To end when gunpowder gives way to digital weapons (Atomic Bombs, electronic weapons), in the American culture, hardly directed by humans, as the Free Market gives absolute rights to company-mothers, weapons and machines, regardless of the harm they can do to human beings:
The Italian Age: 1208-1446: Humanism: The Renaissance.
Renaissance reached its cultural height in Italy in 3 ages: the lineal trecento, the realist cuatroccento and the age of decay, started in the cinquecento and prolonged through the baroque period, when bigger countries developed better gunpowder weapons, conquering Italy. In 1208 Venice loots Byzantium and brings back its gold, artistic remains and gunpowder; mounting the first sea cannon, the Lombarda, on the bow deck of its boats. Italian cities imitate Venice.
In the XIII C. Genoa and then in the XIV C. Firenze, where the Pope has his bankers, become the center of economic power and culture. Yet with the arrival of the Turkish Empire, trade with the East ends in a new cycle of war and the economical power of Italy dwindles, at the very same time in which the Portuguese open a new sea route to African Gold and Indian spices…
The Iberian Age: 1446-1604.
I Age: Epic, arrogant Classic Age: realist III Age: baroque, extinctive
We left 5 suns behind He had an absurd thought I saw the walls of my beloved nation
on seas no men had ever sailed, To become a knight errant not so long strong,
when we heard a colossus’ voice For the glory of his nation now in ruins,
rising above the storm… and travel the world to do noble actions. Tired of the ages of life.
Os Luisadas, Camoens XVI C. Quixot, Cervantes, 1605 Poems, Quevedo, 1635.
1446-1525: Portugal: In the 1440s, Señor Lancelot captures gold and slaves on the Guinea coast.
From then on, Caravels (gunboats) and African Gold will give power to the Portuguese. Vasco de Gama opens the African route to Asia taking away from Italy the species trade. The Portuguese become the new Go(l)d and gunboat masters. Italy enters its baroque age of decadent culture…
Spain: 1525-1608: The Spaniards, jealous of so much wealth plan a Western attack on the Go(l)d route. Columbus discovers America, which provides more precious metals than India and Africa combined. Now muskets and Mexican silver ‘bullions’ make Spain the new top predator nation of the World. The silver bullion becomes the first world international currency accepted everywhere in this planet and finances the famed ‘Tercios’ that conquer Europe, establishing a worldwide empire. However money is still a commodity made of a rare metal. So its reproduction is limited to the availability of silver mines. Spaniards massacre millions of Indians to search for the ring of ‘go(l)d’, mining it through the Mita system that obliges Indians to abandon their crops. It is also the Golden age of the Spanish culture, which ends in the XVII C. Spanish and Latin American Baroque, which gave us Cervantes and Velasquez, among other artistic descriptions of human vanity and decaying culture. Since now a faster way to reproduce money (Dutch stock-paper) and war machines (industrial systems of gunboat re=production) displace the lazy conquistadors relying on servants, mercenary armies, land muskets and gold, to a second-rate power.
- The Dutch Age:1608-1688: Gunboats, the press and VOC, the first stock paper company transform Holland in the dominant world power in control of the 3 most advanced network systems of an economic nation: energetic weapons, verbal/visual information and reproductive, monetary flows. The press with its mathematical graphics and the microscope and telescope start also the dominion of Holland in science. While Calvinism changes the language of informative power from words to money, as Calvin, the ‘Anti-Christ’, reverses the teachings of Jesus, killed after throwing the money-lenders out of the temple, when he affirms that ‘the intelligence of God is money’. Thus, Holland completes the transition from a Historic ecosystem based in human languages and natural networks to the modern, economic ecosystem based in metal – money, weapons and machines.
But Holland is a small land nation whose wealth provokes the envy of bigger continental countries. So, when France in 1688 invades and conquers Holland with its artillery, against which gunboats can do nothing, the Dutch era ends. It is…
- The French Age. 1688-1768: French Artillery and mercantile policies dominate the 80 years ‘golden age’ of French power. Mercantilism gives France a higher GNP, based in local agricultural products (physiocracy) and companies ran by the state. It is the Neoclassic age of the French cultural ‘Enlightenment’. Yet France, like Spain before, belongs to the Catholic culture of verbal wor(l)ds and rejects the companies’ notion that money and trade should control society instead of the Law. Which works as long as the Law is just and the government efficient. Yet when kings degenerate and take the wrong decisions, the wealth of France and its armies collapse. It is the British cycle, which belongs already to the age of industrial machines studied in next chapter.
- The Age of England: 1768-1848. When France conquered Amsterdam in 1688, the Dutch elite and King had already moved to England with its know-how, financial and military resources. King William bought the English crown paying millions of Guilders to M.P. members, which in 1688 elected him king during the ‘Glorious Revolution’. With Dutch Go(l)d, Jewish and Dutch financiers found the Bank of England and London stock-market, copied from Amsterdam’s Bank and Stock. The ‘City’ becomes a financial state within the British state, so powerful that the king still has to ask permission to its mayor to enter. It will be the age of England, a protestant country, believer in Go(l)d’s will, that confronts a decadent France, defeating its navy in the 7th years war, and winning India and Canada, developing the I age of Machines, the age of steam energy…
Now the evolution of metal, becomes the evolution of machines, which again go through 3 phases:
- Max. E: The Steam Age of huge energetic transport Machines or age of England.
- E=T: The Age of Germany, 1848-1928, or age of electro-chemical machines. The discovery of electricity evolves mental machines and reduces its size to cars and small, electric appliances.
Yet Germany lost the last gunpowder war, II W.W., since it didn’t discover digital weapons, atomic bombs and planes designed with informative machines (computers). Now America becomes the new world power when it explodes in 1945 the A-Bomb, starting the cycle of digital weapons.
- Max.T: (1928-2008) The Age of America or age of electronic machines. Now machines are dominant in information. Robots and chips develop. Gunpowder weapons give way to digital ones.
Thus, during the Industrial evolution and reproduction of weapons, the cycle of war accelerates to 72 years. Since it becomes professionalized by the new ‘organism’ of warrior and go(l)d power, the ‘company-mother of machines’, ruled by monetary, digital orders, evolved by A-science under the alibi of the scientific method that proclaims the superiority of sensorial machines and digital languages over human languages and artistic senses; and carried about by the same Germanic white tribes, now organized in ‘nations’. All has changed to remain cyclically the same.
35. The digital age (1945-?). Computer weapons. The American baroque.
American film shows a puritan, lineal age with the western and romantic epics, a classic age after II WW. of sensorial pleasures and a prophetic angst in the sci-fi movies of the future .
As the long cycles of civilizations destroyed by war, ended in a baroque period of pessimism, the 3 cycles of evolution of machines and World Wars, shortened to 70-80 years, are predicted by art, which at the end of each period in a baroque age of angst foresee the destruction of their nations:
- In the I Cycle, during the 1860s age of Steam Wars, steamers and trains that expand colonial empires, we witnessed an age of cultural baroque, from Poe in an America engaged in the Civil war, to the British decadents to the French damned generation of Verlaine and Rimbaud.
- Then in the II Cycle, between I and II W.W. we lived the European baroque, the –isms, from expressionism to cubism that portrayed in advance the corpses of the Holocaust, while the Nazis were mass producing tanks and bombs to come out of the economical crisis.
- While in the present III Electronic Cycle, America, its leading nation, has passed through an infantile age of enthusiasm for electronic machines with the 1st days of television, to a mature age of world-wide reproductive expansion of its industries with the invention of the chip and the PC, to a 3rd age of TV violence, Big Brother surveillance and global war, fuelled by the evolution of electronic ‘smart weapons’. Now global art lives the American baroque that warns us against smart weapons, which are becoming the economical engine of the American economy. It is not a sci-fi fantasy. The 3 Industrial R=evolutions of machines mean the end of man as the most evolved species on Earth that now changes its top predator mind from humans to chips and its top predator body from animal life to weapons-machines, terraforming the Historic World into an Economic Ecosystem. Artists and verbal, ethic writers, the ‘scientists of history’, foresee, as all scientists do, that change and warn us against the evolution of robots, which according to the laws of Evolution might extinguish mankind. The fact that American art in its baroque age has repeated once and again those warnings, as other artists did in all historic cycles that ended in war, just before the extinction of their cultures happened, while the political leaders of those nations have always masked the extinctive future with optimistic, fascist symbols of victory, proves that we should listen to the masters of verbal, human thought, not to the self-interested techno-utopian fantasies of AE-scientists and economists.
Thus in the last chapter dedicated to the analysis of the future , we will consider the economic, war cycle of present America and its future , from the perspective of verbal, temporal prophetic, and historic thought. Since if art, the spatial mind of civilizations has shown ‘prophetic traits’, explaining in space the extinctive nature its spatial anti-human, military, technological civilizations, the other fruits of the Tree of Science; the temporal mind of a culture, the prophetic, ethic, verbal, religious masters of love, have done the same, criticising their anti-truth, the civilizations of informative Go(l)d, explaining how monetary power and weapons, corrupt together and destroy those civilizations.