Eonix Papers

One of the central themes of World History And The Eonic Effect is the study of the emergence of democracy in the eonic sequence, with the resulting suspense over the fate of this democratic stream. The article cited has the proper tone of suspense: How America’s empire will fall

In the year 432 B.C., Athenian statesman Pericles advised his fellow Athenians to pursue a course of war with Sparta and the Peloponnesian League. War was inevitable, he assured them. Furthermore, their enemies did not have the capacity to seriously threaten them; such were the material advantages of Athens. Only 17 years later, with matters still remaining unsettled in the Peloponnesus, the Athenians confidently voted to launch a massive invasion of Sicily despite the fact that the general given command of the invasion had argued passionately against the wisdom of such an act.

In 411 B.C., Athenian democracy collapsed into the authoritarian rule of the oligarchic regime known to history as the Four Hundred. Athens had been impoverished by 20 years of martial expenses, isolated by acts of murderous violence that repelled its allies and weakened by the dreadful failure of the Sicilian Expedition, which had failed to secure the grain and other resources she had thought to gain by conquest. In 404, Athens surrendered to Sparta, her walls were torn down, her military power was broken and her imperial possessions were seized.