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We must face the fact that the very statement of the eonic effect conceals a built in ideology of modernism by claiming that the rise of the modern is part of an evolutionary series. Despite the teleological cast of this affirmation there is an essential distinction, which is that we speak only of directionality in the past. This might represent teleology, but that is a mere suggestion for future enquiry, and in any case, the eonic system has the strange property of switching off in the recent past, and replacing system action with free action. Thus we could not easily put a teleological ideology into the future based on this system which says nothing about the future. Variants of this kind of thinking are present in the postmodern critique of metanarratives, and of ideologies of freedom. The emergence of the freedom concept in a teleological sense, once cast as an ideology, can be constricting, and we see it turn into its totalitarian opposite. Thus the critique of the postmoderns is well taken, although once again we slip past this problem by the way we restrict the statements allowed in theory about the future.
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Was There an Axial Age?
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