Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Novelty

Before I can allow myself to tackle the Mayan Calendar, Book of Revelations, Nostradamus, Hopi Prophecies, Jose Arguelles, World War III, Nuclear Apocalypse, a New World Order, Planet X, The Annunaki Reptilians, The Collective Subconscious, the Age of Aquarius, or The Second Coming of John Lennon, I have to ground myself enough to realize that not everything on that list is based on reality. But they all have one thing in common, they are novelty.

Although novelty is a concept originally produced by Terrence McKenna when he explained Timewave Zero, it may be the most objectively grounded way on can investigate, “The End of the World,” without stocking up on duck tape and canned meat, converting to the latest greatest cult promising safety in the upcoming onslaught, leaving society to free yourself from a the New World Order, and buying the biggest gun to protect yourself from everything from Terrorists, Big Brother, Space Invaders, and the Illuminati. For anybody that has not heard of novelty theory, think of any major event in history. That event carried a make-believe value called novelty that can now be charted on a time line.

Such a graph was made by a philosopher named Terrence McKenna using a Chinese fortune telling system called the I-Ching. It may not be scientifically provable that events carry a “novelty value”, but such a value keeps one from turning all of their fears and fantasies into a predetermined event. So without further delay let’s pick apart the various worldviews that concern themselves with “The Most Novel Event in History”.

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