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Can the driving forces of history be reduced to a dialectic of genes and memes? Can this dialectic "end" in an omega-point where previous paradigms cannot apply, or even contemplate?
Or is Whig historiography more accurate, where nothing much will change beyond how efficiently people can cater to peoples standards of living and sensual needs - more sneakers, coca-cola, chips, cars, etc? How do you think history will "end"?
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>>1475119
When the fucking human race is extinct....?
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>>1475122
Obviously history as "the narrative of agents and events" will never "end" so long as there are agents and events to happen. However, isn't it entirely possible that the human race will pass a point where it is no longer recognizable as the "human race", and so "human history" will become something else altogether?
There are many flavors of this sort of idea!
>Marxist dialectic where material forces produce world-communism
>Jesuit notion of the "noosphere" evolving in the same way the geosphere and hydrosphere interacted to produce the currently extant biosphere
>scientism's notion of technology producing an AI that will fundamentally alter human existence
etc.
Do you think any of those close in on what might be reasonable?
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>>1475150
History is not history unless someone remembers it.
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