3.3 Discrete Freedom Sequence
Last modified 05/21/2008
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One of the advantages of a model is the way it can organize our data into
a coherent whole, and the result might be the discovery of unexpected properties
in the system being modeled. That is certainly the case with the eonic model,
which uncovers a strange result concerning the emergence of democracy in world
history: we see the double emergence of democracy timed exactly with the eonic
sequence. This remarkable aspect of the eonic sequence tells us something
important about what we have called the 'evolution of freedom'. This is not some
abstraction but a process directly matched by the outcomes of the successive
transitions. And its suggests a macro component to the emergence of particular
political systems, in this case democratic experiments. The full significance of
this is explored in the series on the philosophy
of history. But let us note that we have suddenly produced an enriched means
of analysis for the study of modern democracy: a macro aspect and the micro
aspect of its realization. We should recall the difficulties that beset Greek
democracy and the brevity of its appearance.
Our eonic evolution must be telling us something: a jumpstart process seems to lurk behind the temporal realizations as history that we take for granted and which we have thought the results of merely contingent circumstance. We ought to be mindful of the sudden deviations that might occur in the wake of the eonic sequence and, armed with the perception of the eonic effect, move to preserve the action of the macro sequence in our micro response!! |
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