The end of history

The Shanghai copy of
the sculpture Nobility of Time

The end of history |
Saturday – January 3, 2026

Indeed, throughout the last couple of decades, there's been much talk about "the end of history" and further still there's been much talk about the end of the world, and while most of this modern hysteria is driven by hubris and self-idolatry, I would be remiss if I didn't at least acknowledged that yes there's a sliver of truth in these very modern currents. It does seem that most men, that are at least somewhat aware, can sense that yes the world is approaching some kind of turning point, some kind of paradigm shift, something I've covered in more detail here. But then there are some men that claim that nothing ever changes, and these men may be more inclined to believe in this artifact of modern hubris – the end of history. What then is it that is supposed to end? The Kali Yuga, or the cyclical nature all together? Perhaps the excitement, the almost epic poetry, of remote history, or really the myth of the past, but not the remote past, only the past that's in the making right now? Well, something like this would perhaps be an appropriate description of this assumption, but these men, these material and very much modern men, are not wrong in their assumption that once the humanist axiom has prevailed, history will truly end. But the end of history won't really look like the flourishing of liberal democracy and the prudence of technocratic stewardship and expertise, not at all. What's really in the making is something much more profound than that: really what's coming to an end is reality itself, or rather modern men's contact with reality. As change keeps happening at an evermore accelerating phase, change itself will be made continual and ordinary, not something unusual or even tenable, something that you can point to in the canvas of history. No, the speed of change will approach infinity and as this occurs every moment in time will approach zero, and consequently modern men will allow for their greatest invention yet: the ability to become completely detached from reality. This all will entail at least a few things: first and foremost, with the continual change of the material domain, or rather as men become used to change in every moment, history will lose its meaning and its nuance, and consequently nothing will stand in the way of contemporary men changing history to their own liking, because with a continual change, every moment approaches zero and basically becomes erased, and with this the material imaginations and fantasies of modern men can cover the canvas with an alternative and ideological truth, but this ideological truth will of course keep changing as men's material needs and intentions keep changing. I believe that at some point in either the 20th or 21st centuries, future historians will make delineation between the epic and remote past, and what essentially will become the continual or recent past. By continual or recent past, I'm simply referring to the continually changing nature of the past, and it may not be that we've passed this point quite yet. The implications of the end of history are of course very much totalitarian in nature and the consequences of this will very likely be the unleash on the world of something much more sinister than mere liberal democracy; in this sense I view liberal democracy and the current world order as merely a precursor to the likely final stage of the Kali Yuga. Indeed, once men become enabled to reach back in time and change it to their liking and once reality has no meaning, there will be no limits to the fantastic and messianic undertakings and enterprises men are willing to undertake. Really, the end of history can be summed up as this: at some point men will basically become used to change faster then their ability to notice change, and this has already been a phenomena of the modern world for some time, but in our 21st century this is really something that has become very apparent and tangible: men are basically not able to keep up with continual change, so they don't register reality; they've become enabled to live free and without consequence of the real world. If this is not the beast in his final human form, then I don't know how the beast in his final form will appear. When men are aware of the ongoing change and evolution around them, they are also able to construct a somewhat coherent and objective view of the world in their mind, but we're about to enter a time when this ability will be lost. What is a man supposed to do that knows nothing about his past? Well, a man that knows nothing about his past is a stranger in familiar places, and to be a stranger in familiar places is basically to be lost to the chaos and the currents of time; this man is not anchored in reality.

    Indeed, this is the end of history and we are approaching this time fast, and it may be that we're already at the end of history. Therefore I would like to depart from my usual style and take this moment to just make some observations about the world. As I've covered in previous posts: people are very much controlled by "smart" technology and cultural trends. Well, these are at the very least early indications, or warning signs if you will. Once people are made strangers in familiar places, you may say that the transfiguration into the beast is complete or very near completion; at that stage people will truly be zombified. Yes, to some extend this was always the case, but then again for all of history, at least up till this point, men were still unable to escape the grasp of history, they weren't able to outrun reality, but if the end of history is to mean anything, it has to be man's ability to basically outrun history, the ability to completely embrace the alternate and ideological reality, something unknown so far.

    I don't believe that there are any ways to oppose this tide; these things are happening for a reason. Besides, the idea of trying to oppose time is much too political and material for me, and if you're wondering why, then read my post labeled "Why I'm not conservative". In the meantime, I continue to encourage you to seek the light.

    Of course, for the liberal man, the humanist axiom ending is indistinguishable from the end of the world.

Reginald Drax – January 3, 2026.