What does it mean that the Dinosaur-Killer, the “high renaissance\ and the first atom bomb (at Almogordo or Hiroshima?) are all very novel?
That McKenna – or the author of the FAQ — is ignorant of extinction cycles. That M.o.t.a.o.t.f. thinks the extinction of every land creature over a hundred kilos is novel, which leads me to think that the Really Novel Thing in 2012 is an asteriod which does the job right. That there is an odd prejudice agains the Reformation and Scientific Revolution at work here. That M.o.t.a.o.t.f. misses the obvious parallels between the Renaissance and classical Greece and Warring States China, which even that fraud Spengler saw “big as a watermelon,” and presumably make such periods less than absolutely “novel.” That the entire perspective is incredibly parochial, one for which Darwin — never mind Copernicus — might as well never have lived. “The explosion of the first atomic device corresponds in the wave to the `big bang’ in its importance as a novel event” — that is, when a tribe of apes adds to its already extensive collection one more implement of destruction, which with improba
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