Oooh, doesn't it just give you a tingle to find a like-mind?

Just been reading through this article on the theory of world events as predictive tools.

I have long thought of this as a concept holding some truth on more than one sphere of reality and consciousness. Sure Jung could be thrown into the equation somewhere. Although I'm sure there's a temptation to see ourselves at the age we would like to be in terms of world evolution on a conscious or predictive level.

I always thought of the world wars as the kid in the playground stage:- on a macro (universal) level a drop in the ocean of experience, on the micro (human) level hugely traumatic.

Still, in thinking in that way I'm thinking of culturally enclosed or topographically significant events of a predictive nature, rather than global - surprising how much of the world wasn't involved in the world wars I think, to some extent, this article is also in its assertion of a computer-driven world society, suggesting the majority of people, which isn't accurate. At what point are we discussing true world events, not just our perception of events led by our cultural circumstances?

But just suggesting there is something to this general theory - the scope for magic to influence word events and thus the outcome at least of the reading of the future - would be/has been immense No?

Been reading Asimov's Foundation trilogy Thin?

Psychohistory

No I haven't - but if so many people (especially such great minds ) are thinking it...

Surely any "patterns" in world history are put there by our view - limited by culture and what we actually know, rather than think we know.
It's like saying "there's a face in the clouds" - it might look like that, but it is the fact that we have brains that like recognising faces and patterns, rather than that there actually is a face in the clouds, or a pattern in history.

I read it. I also read something of the rest of the site.


Where language falls down is that people do not incur a cost by its use.