Great Cataclysm

It's pretty obvious that the future cannot happen due to unsustainable advancements in technology. According to scholars, this is to be expected as everything moves in a cycle -- human civilization cycle (from first settlements to collapse from unsustainable advancement) is 10,000 years. At which point the great cataclysm comes to cleanse the Earth and begin us on our journey of pointless growth again. We are reaching that point shortly, so what do you think that cataclysm will be? Jew mind virus? Sun pulse? Great deluge?

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No, that's precisely what I'm referring to. Marx had a progressive view of history, but he also believed in the cyclical nature of history, namely the class conflict reinventing itself in a new form in every era. So the idea is there are repeating patterns in history, but societal change (brought on by the resolution of these patterns) is ultimately inevitable.

The problem with "Marxists" is that a lot of them basically end up playing God, and thinking they can dictate the future - but Marx's ideas were mainly about these events being inevitable, whether one actively pushed for them or not. And ironically, people who actively try to fight for "progress" in accordance with their interpretation of Marx, may actually be in a way clinging to values of the past that the inevitable flow of history is trying to abolish. If Marx was right, he's right regardless of whether people believe him or not.