In one sense: it's absolute and eugoriegs nonsense. The end of a cycle does not mean the end of time itself; most cultures, including Western culture, have myths of cyclical time of one sort or other. (For example: the Platonic Great Year cycle that Spenser used as the numerological underpinning of the Faerie Queene.)Nor does it necessarily act as a harbinger of transformation, although that is certainly a current of thought in, among others, Jung and Neumann.I see it as more a cultural pathology somewhat akin to the millenarian panics of the Middle Ages. In fact (again using Jungian concepts) it strikes me as being far more akin to primitive consciousness and participation mystique than anything advanced and transformative.One cannot ignore the sheer gloomy stupidity of those who can only see the negative aspects of Western culture and not the positive ones.
by Dera 05:36:57 PM 2013.03.14 |