There are periods in which societies attempt to recover order not through passion or ideology, but through calculation. The Technocracy Movement of the early twentieth century arose during one such period. It promised that, if only production and administration were entrusted to technical expertise rather than partisan struggle, waste and instability might give way to something more disciplined and rational.
Nature rarely gives a simple answer to a simple question, but if you ask a precise question at the right scale, she often answers very clearly.
“Proceeding along the globe due north and due south of the Great Pyramid, it has been found by a good physical geographer as well as engineer, Mr. William Petrie, that there is more earth and less sea in that meridian than in any other meridian all the equator round. Hence, therefore, the Great Pyramid’s meridian is caused to be as essentially marked by nature, in a general manner, across the world from Pole to Pole.”
In a little while Einstein came from the upper floor to us, his long hair well-groomed, his face lighted up with his friendly smile. He started to move a chair with a straight high upholstered back, which had already drawn my attention in the modestly furnished room, and as I helped him, a help he graciously accepted, he said, “this is my Jupiter chair.”
The ~12,900-year ECDO event unleashed global oceanic surges and electrical discharges, leaving marine fossils at the Grand Canyon’s 7,000-foot elevation, vitrified sands at Giza, and rapid megafauna burials in Siberia. As Earth’s magnetic field weakens in June 2025, this cataclysmic history warns of potential recurrence, urging a shift from uniformitarian models to catastrophic frameworks.
“It is impossible to reflect on the changed state of the American continent without the deepest astonishment. Formerly it must have swarmed with great monsters: now we find mere pigmies, compared with the antecedent, allied races. What, then, has exterminated so many species and whole genera? The mind at first is irresistibly hurried into the belief of some great catastrophe; but thus to destroy animals, both large and small, in Southern Patagonia, in Brazil, on the Cordillera of Peru, in North America up to Behring’s Straits, we must shake the entire framework of the globe.” – Charles Darwin
