TIMES, TIME, AND HALF A TIME. A HISTORY OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM.

Comments on a cultural reality between past and future.

This blog describes Metatime in the Posthuman experience, drawn from Sir Isaac Newton's secret work on the future end of times, a tract in which he described Histories of Things to Come. His hidden papers on the occult were auctioned to two private buyers in 1936 at Sotheby's, but were not available for public research until the 1990s.



Monday, August 9, 2010

Anniversaries: Lest We Forget

August 9, 1945: Nagasaki bomb, Fat Man.

The anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9) are this week. British conservative politician, Daniel Hannan, has reflected on the relative silence around the anniversaries here.

2 comments:

  1. As the commentator notes, nukes aren't the fear du jour. A culture of fear, however, continues.

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  2. There have always been popular eschatologies, especially at the turns of centuries and millennia. The problem is that sometimes the eschatologies converge with reality! It's a sort of X-files moment where the vagaries of psychological perception are unfortunately justified. For example, when the Black Death swept Europe, people had a point in indulging in a culture of fear. In this case, nuclear weapons aren't the fear du jour, but they're still terrifying. It makes me think of a line in that novel Daniel Deronda, where the heroine realizes that world events which she's long ignored are suddenly perched on her doorstep and knocking...

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