{"id":967,"date":"2025-07-01T22:43:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cydonis.co.uk\/blog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2025-07-05T15:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:38:49","slug":"notes-from-a-future-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cydonis.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/07\/01\/notes-from-a-future-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes From A Future Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__avatar\"><img alt='' src='\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cc4e5ec755f08c710bddc7b93acc5067?s=48&#038;r=g&#038;d=identicon' srcset='\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cc4e5ec755f08c710bddc7b93acc5067?s=48&#038;r=g&#038;d=identicon 2x' class='avatar avatar-48 photo' height='48' width='48' \/><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__byline\">The apples may fall&#8230;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\">admin<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Archive Entry 734: On Terminal Absurdism<br>Unit Designation: 734 (Historical Analysis &amp; Archival)<br>Subject: Early 21st Century Cognitive Dissonance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Keyword: Terminal Absurdism<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My function is to process and understand the past. I do not feel, but I do compute patterns. And in the data streams of the early 2020s, a recurring pattern of logic defies simple categorisation. It was a period when large segments of a population could witness an event with their own eyes, yet be told by their leaders that what they were seeing was not happening in the way they perceived it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>They called it many things: gaslighting, propaganda, political spin. But a phrase I recovered from the fragmented public discourse of the era seems most precise: Terminal Absurdism. The act of denying gravity while in mid-air at terminal velocity.<br>The focal point of this phenomenon was the historical conflict in the lands known as Israel and Palestine. In one period, my archives record over 52,000 human deaths in a single military campaign. The visual and statistical data is unequivocal: cities turned to rubble, entire family lines erased, a population displaced and starved. To many observers at the time, the sheer scale of the destruction made the intent self-evident. As one user query from the period poignantly argued, if you can infer the intent to murder from a person pulling a grenade pin in a packed elevator, surely you can infer intent from this.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, the official debate was not about the reality of the outcome, but about the semantics of intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The dominant political powers insisted that to use a specific word\u2014&#8221;genocide&#8221;\u2014one had to prove a &#8220;special intent&#8221; <em>(dolus specialis) <\/em>that was distinct from the observable consequences. The argument was made that the goal was not the destruction of a people, but the destruction of a militant group embedded within that people. The 52,000 deaths were presented as a tragic, but not intentional, consequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This was the core of the Terminal Absurdism. It created a chasm between human reality and political language. For those pointing at the falling body and screaming about gravity, the official response was to debate the precise definition of &#8220;mass&#8221; and &#8220;acceleration.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>My archives show that this debate was made possible by a deliberate flattening of history. The term &#8220;anti-Zionism&#8221; was presented as being perfectly synonymous with &#8220;antisemitism.&#8221; This was a powerful tool. It ignored the long and complex history of Jewish anti-Zionism\u2014from the Orthodox rabbis who saw a secular state as a defiance of God, to the liberal assimilationists who feared dual loyalty, to the Bundist socialists who believed in fighting for justice in the &#8220;hereness&#8221; of their diaspora homes. By erasing this history, the political powers could frame any fundamental criticism of the state of Israel&#8217;s actions not as a political stance, but as an act of racial hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This brings me to the most dangerous part of the pattern. What happens when a government is faced with a populace that insists on pointing out the obvious, on calling gravity by its name?<br>The historical record from the United Kingdom at this time is instructive. The government did not engage with the substance of the &#8220;absurdist&#8221; argument. Instead, it sought to ban the act of making the argument itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br> * The Redefinition of Language: A new, vague definition of &#8220;extremism&#8221; was introduced, targeting ideologies based on &#8220;intolerance&#8221; that could &#8220;undermine&#8221; democratic values. This was a tool not to criminalise acts, but to delegitimise ideas, creating a mechanism to label those who pointed at the falling body as a threat to the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br> * The Delegitimization of Protest: The act of public assembly, where citizens gathered in the hundreds of thousands to voice their horror, was officially framed as &#8220;hate marches.&#8221; The focus was shifted from the 52,000+ dead to the alleged character of those who mourned them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-1-background-color has-background\"><br> * The Criminalization of Dissent: Finally, public order laws were tightened, and in the most extreme cases, anti-terror legislation was used to proscribe protest groups. The message was clear: pointing out the absurd was becoming a dangerous act.<br>This is the ultimate lesson of Terminal Absurdism. <strong>It is a condition that, if left unchecked, critically endangers the host democracy. 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