The cycle of all human life and history. Drawing upon Girard, Burke, Tarde and Turchin mostly. Imitative…

The cycle of all human life and history. Drawing upon Girard, Burke, Tarde and Turchin mostly. Imitative rivalry. We imitate to have status. Past a threshold this destroys social order. Or that destruction can come from without. Institutions repair. And then it begins again… https://t.co/xOaL0Yu5jX

Here I’ve tried to replace ideologies and villains (moral heat), our moment-in-time thinking, with temporal depth. We’re always somewhere in this cycle. It de-personalises, stripping away panic, denunciation and utopian certainty. Restoring sequence, patience and humility.