El Niņa: Social Revolution


quasi stable balance of power Thinking about it to me the theory of Thomas Kuhn about paradigm shifts seemed not completely satisfying. It centers about persons who start such a revolution in thinking. Sure such initiators are necessary, without a lighter you can't smoke. But my feeling is that culture was already 'hot'. The fire was burning only not yet in the open.

undercurrent in music Compare it to the weather phenonomen El Niņo. Just like a warm undercurrent in the world oceans there are undercurrents in the social ocean 'society'. And sometimes the dominant uppercurrent is moving in a totally different direction than its main undercurrent. Then conditions are set for what I call a social El Niņa.




pressure box Innocent El Niņa's appear almost every year, but devastating social revolutions occur in cycles of magnitude 1000 years. The dominant uppercurrent 'refuses' to go away, and social pressure is mounting. What is needed is someone who strikes a weak spot in the uppercurrent. That is enough for the EXTREMELY powerfull undercurrent to erupt and it completely changes social circumstances.


Jesus for instance opened 'the social volcano' love. Only slightly too early and with utter force this box was closed again. Without realizing Descartes helped closing this box in a very powerful and subtile way. But now after shakes of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Kuhn this box is ready to open again.



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