Time is not what is used to be.
What we call 'History' ended sometime between 1997-2002. Or rather it
finished the process of 'winding up' through that period. Although the
initial threads of this 'winding up' process can probably be traced back
to 1989 and the end of the Berlin Wall.
Historical time had a fabric to it, a tangible quality, it was
meaningful and contiguous. You could describe it as elemental, and
qualitative.
Flat time, what we've been in since around 2002 has a universal quality,
it is not contiguous, but only gives the illusion of it. Phenomena in
Flat time are very interchangeable from one year to another. For example
You could take a Pop song from 2015 for example and it could fit into
either 2005 or 2025. Or, you could take someone's fashion, or clothing
from 2004, and it would not look out of place in 2014.
This is because phenomena 'Music, Fashion, Automobiles' are elemental in
nature, just like Historical time. They are part of the same
qualitative fabric as historical time. When you look at automobile
designs from 2015 they do not look much different to those of 2005.
Fashion is strictly a 20th century phenomenon, Fashion in flat time is
not 'new', rather it is recylced trends of the 20s-90s. i.e (This "new"
2014 line of Women's Coats has a 60s 'Mod' element to it, with a 90s
flair). etc
People will claim that they still perceive 'differences' or 'something
new under the sun', but these so called 'new' things are never totally
new when you dig deep enough, you will always find that it has been done
before in some incarnation, like the skinny jeans of the 80s new
romantics etc. What's really happening is the micro-recylcing of trends
to give the illusion of something new, but all that's really happening
is a clever re-arranging of the same old furniture.
This is the nature of Flat time, it gives the illusion of being
qualitative and contiguous, but it is in fact not. However our ability
to perceive this illusion has only been recent because 16 or so years is
a relatively short time period in order to look back on. Until recently
we have still been under the millennial spell of progressing in linear
time. Instead we've been in a sort of universal time, where one year is
largely interchangeable with others.
