…of these things were somehow not present. And the rationalists just sneer and say, oh, it's a golden age. It's been going on since Vico and the Bible, but I don't think so. I think the myth of the fall into history is very real, that something bad has…

…look at human history. They have for a long, long time. Herodotus had a theory of history. Hesiod had a theory of history. Marx, Vico, so forth. I think what moves me to talk about this, this evening is the fact that the world just seems quite crazy…

…the stages of history and of the necessary conclusion of history. He was a vicomian. He was a fan of Guillain Battista Vico, who was the first person to actually lay out one of these cyclical historical schemes of collapsing ingress. Yeah. Are you…

…called the nostalgia for paradise. In other words, the belief that the older it is, the better it is. And Guillain Battista Vico in la cienzia Nuova laid the basis for this kind of thinking. It's called classicism in the renaissance context. So once they…