The Nature of History
The Ancient-Medieval-Modern worldview possessed by many historians is used because of the idea that humanity has had a single development that spans over the last 6000 years of history; the end of the neolithic brings about farming to stone aged man triggering a steady and exponential growth of technological advancement before piercing through our moment in history as it takes humanity to unimaginable heights. Historians will note the passing of batons such as architecture and philosophy, technology and art forms from one civilisation to another and record how it changes and, particularly with the sciences, argue that it is compounding on top of itself with every generation that learns it.
But this all changes with the concept of the higher cultures as their existence creates a distinction: within the higher cultures there is a sense of becoming, each battle fought on the Aegean by warring city-states, each book written by Oxford scholars, every act of piety during the Islamic golden age, they all are studied virulently by historians because their actions caused others which went on to cause others in an effect that when observed from a distance gives the impression of a grand movement of peoples and thought through time, but in the primitive cultures of the neolithic, the tribal cultures that roamed the steppe or hunted for their meals in Africa and Australia, a battle or idea amongst them leads nowhere because they are plant-like and dormant.
Such a difference can be observed by asking a historian about the history of the Bantus with dates for events and contrasting this with the frequency of dates mentioned by a Roman historian. With the former, the days and years and decades are all the same and melt into one another until a pot or bow is discovered to be slightly different from the one discovered a century prior, but every day mattered in the sack of Rome and every day mattered in Caesar’s rise to power. In World War 1 every minute on the Somme mattered because its outcome was guaranteed to decide the fate of Europe. To suggest that the Scythians had history in the same sense as India, China or Mexico, raises some doubt and calls into question the meaning of the word history itself.
As corrected by Spengler, history requires an aim, a direction for a people to move towards, an idea to fulfil. Directionality is what provides the animal with the tension to live and move and when that tension ceases, they return to being a plant. Outside of the aims, before it and after it, man is historyless; before Troy, after Caesar, and in the forests of northern Germania, the effects of this or that event cease to hold weight and arbitrarily take the corpse of the culture wherever it likes. The Persians were a continuance of Babylon, but incidentally so were the Kassite warlords. In Egypt, there was no necessity or grand design behind Ptolemy’s rule after Alexander’s death, it was just one moment of mindless wandering. We can even use the modern world to showcase this death now: would history go in a radically new direction if America won in Afghanistan, or if Gadaffi defeated his deposers? The 2030 agenda set up by our elites can be seen as an overly ideological, intellectual, but otherwise reasonless centralization of politics through technology in an uninspired act of early Caesarism. Even with the global power they wield now, their desire to move history seems pointless and sentimental in comparison to the tyrannies of the 20th century or the empires of the 19th.
There is history in every higher culture because they aspire towards an ultimate goal. Before them there were pre-cultural events that meandered until they hit something strong enough to start the cycle, and after them they come full circle, the primitiveness of chiefs fighting for women and gold is now shared in spirit by the Caesars of the civilization as they fight for the throne, and each rulership sends us further and further into those eternal plant-like forms from whence we came, not quite returning us to tribal conditions, but in killing the soul of the culture does the civilization zombie walk until it is put down by stronger and newer forms.