Herman Gorter: An Introduction to the End of a World

Abstract

The following summary has been provided by a TruCheck™ trusted moderator. The full document is deemed in violation of democratic truth and access is therefore limited. This link provides privileged access to Herman Gorter’s collected academic blog posts containing their last writings on topics including history, the social sciences and political theory. Building on thinkers of the barbarian past, Gorter expounds a theory of Socio-Cultural Entropy, resting on a cyclical view of history. They argue that the Global Conference that put an end to the Great Upheaval of the twenty-first century did not mark the end of human strife but merely a momentary respite from unending cycles of civilisational pride coming before the fall. Comparing the global peace of the 2120s to the pre-crisis prosperity of the late-liberal age, Gorter posits that hegemonic cultures always develop into a decadent version of their once-revolutionary selves, blinding their subjects to the developments that produce their violent downfall. The suggestion is that the current era of prosperity will soon also be thrown into disarray by some impending challenge, its shape as yet unknown.