Why did so many high iq geniuses believe that life and the universe was cyclical?
Einstein, Oppenheimer, Tesla, Nietzsche, Goethe and Socrates. All believed in some form of reincarnation after death.
The Western fixation on linear time fosters a deep-seated anxiety, framing history as either an ascent toward an idealized future or a descent into irreversible decline. This binary thinking breeds a restless urgency—an obsession with whether we stand at the dawn of something new or the twilight of something lost. Yet this view is a distortion, a product of cultural narcissism that insists on the singular importance of the present moment. In contrast, cyclical time, long understood in Eastern traditions and ancient Western thought, dissolves this illusion. It reveals history as neither a march of progress nor an unfolding catastrophe, but an eternal rhythm of rise, fall, and renewal. The Fourth Turning articulates this lost wisdom, exposing the modern illusion that we are somehow exempt from the patterns that have governed human civilization for millennia.
To see time as linear is to resist the natural order, clinging to the hubris that history must either culminate in us or collapse upon us. This blindness fuels the collective neurosis of modernity, where every crisis is framed as an unprecedented disaster rather than a necessary phase in an ongoing cycle. The fear of an "end" arises not from reality but from an inability to perceive renewal within destruction. True clarity comes not from seeking permanence but from recognizing that transformation is the only constant. By surrendering to the inevitability of cycles, we move beyond the fragile egoism of linear time and into a deeper, more intelligent acceptance of historical flow.
>>24538152 (OP)No its a spiral not cyclical.
>>24538248Away from the center or towards the center? You're retarded, btw.
>>24538152 (OP)Einstein was NOTORIOUS for believing in the steady state model.
>>24538183Shut the fuck up, ChatGPTard.
