1.4 The Discrete Freedom Sequence
Last modified 05/17/2008
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We can extract one surprising property from our emerging conception of the
'evolution of freedom', a specific instance of a 'freedom effect' embedded in
our eonic series: the discrete freedom sequence, that is, the double birth of
democracy in a precise timing. We have seen the sequence of transitions and
their divides. What we notice is that twice in row we see the birth of democracy
timed to the divide period of our transitions, first in the Greek transition,
precisely indicated by the appearance of Solon and his generation, and then at
the Great Divide in the modern period. Most remarkable! We don't suspect that
the massive wave of democratic revolutions in the modern period, around the
period of the French Revolution and after, correlates with a larger pattern of
effects. To be sure, the modern transition is associated with a whole series of
revolutions, the Protestant Reformation being the first, the English Civil War
being the seminal generator of much that will come later.
But it is the period of the Enlightenment and its immediate aftermath that sees the massive transition toward democratic enfoldment. For reasons we don't at first understand this is not chance! It beggars belief, at first, but with careful study we can begin to see the logic in all of this. The issue is simple: the eonic series seems to induce change, here corresponds to a 'causal' principle. Yet if we 'induce freedom' there is a paradox that this freedom will be less than free. In fact, the evolution of freedom might require an assisting evolutionary process, yet freedom must also be spontaneous. Our eonic system resolves this as best as is possible by a hybrid method: we see that it seems to confine induction to the transitional series, triggering a 'freedom emergence' phenomenon at the point of its conclusion, i.e. the divide period. How strange, yet compellingly simple the logic!
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