10.26.11
The left’s need for a new ‘failsafe’ evolution perspective beyond theories
Darwinism was one of the factors in the destruction of the old left, although most of its remnant remains unaware of this. A new left needs a new ‘failsafe’ evolution perspective beyond Darwinism (and religious design ideologies) that can be robust, useful, and free from economic ideology. And not moored to reductionist scientism. The lesson of world history is one to provide just this. If we attempt to sample historical sequences with a frequency test, the result is a fuzzy success: the eonic effect. We can see that world history follows its own evolutionary logic, one that we can use to gain overall perspective, without letting it become another theory.
Time to face reality: science, what to say of social movements, are going to get ‘theories’ wrong, over and over. A failsafe approach like the eonic model (a periodization outline with dynamical/theoretical hints in the background) beyond theory can be one approach.
http://history-and-evolution.com/whee4th/intro1_1_1.htm