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What
are the Five Civilizations? Summary
page providing a description of each of the five civilizations and their
significant events (whatare) 501 words:
Content: Splitting
world history into four separate stories, we identify each of the stories
in this section and offer a brief narration. For example, what is Civilization
I? We say it is the story of government culminating in large political
empires. And so with the other civilizations. What are they and what
is their story? In addition, we look at the pattern of previous civilizations
to try to predict what will happen in the future. We also speculate
briefly on the future of the fifth, computer-based civilization.
What is Civilization
I? Civilization as a war making machine in the
first epoch of world history (description1) 564
words
What is Civilization
II? Civilization as religious empire in the second
epoch of world history (description2) 602
words
What is Civilization
III? Civilization as educational and commercial
advancement in the third epoch of world history (description3)
569 words
What is Civilization
IV? Civilization as a spectacle of news and entertainment
in the fourth epoch of world history (description4)
536 words
A Brief History of Government:
How it developed in the first civilization and beyond
(r&fcivI) 1,642 words
A Brief History of Religion:
Rise and fall of the second civilization (r&fcivII) 2,110
words
A Brief History of Business
and Education: Rise of the third civilization (r&fcivIII)
2,084 words
Headline Events of Civilization
I: Some important events in the history of civilization
as a war making machine (events1) 474
words
Headline events of Civilization
II: Some important events in the history of civilization
as religious empire (events2) 500 words
Headline Events of Civilization
III: Some events in the history of civilization
as educational and commercial advancement (events3) 395
words
Headline Events of Civilization
IV: Some events in the history of civilization
as a spectacle of news and entertainment (events4) 438
words
Using world history
to predict the future of the First Civilization: Paying
special attention to how government as an institution has changed
(predict1stciv) 5,445 words
Using world history
to predict the future of the Second Civilization: Paying
special attention to how religion as an institution has changed (predict2ndciv)
6,894 words
Using World History
to Predict the Future of the Third Civilization: Paying
Special Attention to the Connection between Education and Careers
(predict3rdciv ) 8,065 words
The Fifth Civilization:
What will a computer based civilization become? (fifthciv)
411 words
Geeks and Nerds, personality types of the
new civilization (geeks)
592 words
Communication
Technologies and World History Summary
page for writings about communication technologies in each civilization
(communication) 258 words
Content: This scheme of world history is based
on changing communication technologies. When a new technology becomes
dominant, it introduces a new civilization. This section looks at the
relationship between communication technologies and changes in the structure
of society. It also lists important inventions in the various fields
of communication technology, including dates of discovery. Finally,
we have two articles which explore the impact of new communication technologies.
Each is associated with a technique for identifying truth.
Relationship Between Cultural
Technologies and Civilization: How communication
technology affects the form and content of human cultures (civtech)
844 words
Some Dates in the History
of Communication: Technologies Inventions which
have advanced communication (culttech) 1,706
words
Pinpointing
critical change in our most recent civilizations Particular
events associated with a change in civilizations (criticalchange) 3,455
words
How Communication Technology
Drives Civilizations' Ideals: A series of cultural
inventions have changed what we value (ctideals) 2,106
words
On the Cutting Edge
of Knowledge: A short history of the most advanced
techniques of establishing truth in each age (cuttingedge)
4,468 words
A Typeface
for the 20th Century The
Helvetica font becomes popular (helvetica) 774
words
The
Origin of YouTube How
a man in his mid 20s invented a product worth more than $1 billion
two years later (YouTube)
701 words
The 43-Hour Day:
Time spent on various devices of electronic communication
in todays multi-tasking world 729
words
About
Religion and World History: Summary
page for writings about religion in world history (religionsummary)
699 words Content:
Religion is the soul or spirit of a civilization. Even after the epoch
of world religion (Civilization II), the new civilizations have each
brought with them their own type of religion. Religion, in a broad sense,
consists of certain beliefs and models of attractive personality. The
Christmas holiday has continued to evolve in accordance with civilizations.
For instance, in the third epoch of civilization, it has become a commercial
holiday which stresses shopping for gifts. This section also deals
extensively with Albert Schweitzers views on the Messianic self
consciousness of Jesus. According to Schweitzer, Jesus ministry
was concerned with the apocalyptic advent of the Kingdom of God.
This section also touches upon apocalyptic thinking in our own day and
the use of Gematria to write poetry.
Epochal Changes in Religion
(page 2): Personality as a key element of religious
culture (religion2) 605 words
Epochal Changes in Religion
(page 1): How religion changes with each epoch
of world history, bringing different beliefs and values (religion1)
845 words
God's Authority
in the World Whether
his reputed word binds humanity to the end of time (knowgod)
2827 words
Why Written Language
is important to Religions of the Second Epoch: How
and why they are scripturally based religions (importantlanguage)
670 words
The
Rite of Human Sacrifice in the Five Civilizations Some
types of self-sacrifice not on an altar (humansacrifice)
622 words
The Christmas Holiday:
How the Christmas holiday appears in each epoch (christmas)
453 words
Commercial Holidays
and the Reaction to Consumerism: Some pressures
for and against money taking over our lives (consumerism) 1,261
words
Billy
Graham, a man of religion for the Entertainment Age
Steadfast
in commitment to Jesus while exploiting the latest communication technologies
(billygraham) 1004
words
What Jesus was Thinking:
A book by William McGaughey following Albert Schweitzer's
Kingdom of God and Primitive Christianity (Jesusbook)
1,730 words
Prophetic Expectations
at the Time of Jesus Significant: Jewish Prophecies
relating to the Messiah (jewishprophecy) 2,819
words
Life of the Historical
Jesus: Significant events in Jesus' life as narrated
in the Gospels (historicaljesus) 5,359
words
Biblical Prophecy and
the United Nations: Is the United Nations a tool
of Satan? (bibleandUN) 1,338 words
Poems of Francis Gurney Okie:
Mystical verse written with the aid of Gematria (fgokie)
957 words
On
the Entertainment Civilization: Summary
page for materials on the fourth civilization (entertainment)
183 words Content:
Five Epochs of Civilization argues that U.S. society today is focused
primarily upon entertainment; hence, we are living in the fourth civilization.
Its culture, focused upon rhythm, introduces nonrational values into
society. Its structure of power is based upon the ability to capture
the attention of individual minds in other words, to assemble an audience
which can then be put to the use of selling something. However, the
entertainment culture is fun loving so we have also included two unserious
pieces: a conspiracy theory about the origins of the entertainment
industry and a yarn about baseball which is true in its facts but not
in its conclusions.
Contemporary
political campaigns as infomercials Why
give news coverage away for free when political candidates might be
persuaded to pay? (infomercial) 1363
words
Campaigning for High Political
Office in an Age of Entertainment: William McGaughey's
Quixotic quest of the U.S. Presidency in 2004 (campaign) 2,232
words
An
Assessment of the Political Dance Contest How the U.S.
President is selected in 2008 (politicaldance) 793
words
Entertainment
in Service of a Political Agenda New
Hollywood film may be a harbinger of war with Iran (warwithiran)
1110 words
Changing Civilizations
Affect Socialist Societies, Too Tough
to maintain revolutionary zeal in the face of movies, television,
and the internet (castro) 191
words
"Smokey Joe"
Wood & the Boston Red Sox Curse: A yarn about
the World Champion Boston Red Sox and its ace pitcher in 1912 (smokeyjoe)
1,005 words
Secret Beginnings of
the U.S. Entertainment Industry: A tall tale about
how President Taft started the U.S. entertainment industry (secretbeg)
3,182 words
Dysfunctional
Celebrities In
its age of ripeness, the entertainment culture focuses on this. (dysfunctionalcelebrity)
2888 words
A Nation of Way Too Many Celebrities
It taxes the brain to keep track of all this entertainment-related
fame. (celebrityglut) 958
words
How the Fourth Civilization
might End: As commercial advertising and entertainment
programming are decoupled (end) 1,320
words
The Beginning of the End of
Civilization IV and its Replacement by the Next A
transition from the age of entertainment to computer-based culture
(end2) 2,138 words
Too Many
Branded Products in TV Shows Commercial
messages mercilessly loaded into entertainment programming (products)
734 words
Using
world history to predict the future Using
world history to predict the future (prediction) 5,385
words Content: The lead page was
Googles top rated site for the search words predict the
future. This page is a tightly argued analysis of patterns found
in previous civilizations which might be applied to our own. We have
also added other pages related to historical prediction (1) factors
which limit our ability to foresee the future and (2) a detailed analysis
of patterns and events in the first three civilizations which support
certain conclusions about the future of the institution in question.
Keep in mind that this approach to prediction is based upon an organic
view of human cultures in which periods of growth are followed by periods
of decline. It would be familiar to students of Spengler and Toynbee.
Summary of articles
related to historical prediction: Identify patterns
in past civilizations to anticipate the future course of our own (predictionsummary)
280 words Content: Does knowledge of the
past help to predict the future? This is a summary page, partly predictive
and partly skeptical. See also "Using world history to predict
the future.
My Model of Historical Prediction
Building upon Spenglers and Toynbees idea
that civilizations exhibit life cycles analogous to the present situation
(historicalprediction)
2,667 words
Using world history
to predict the future of the First Civilization: Paying
special attention to how government as an institution has changed
(predict1stciv) 5,445 words -
second use of this page
Using world history
to predict the future of the Second Civilization: Paying
special attention to how religion as an institution has changed (predict2ndciv)
6,894 words - second
use of this page
Using World History
to Predict the Future of the Third Civilization: Paying
Special Attention to the Connection between Education and Careers
(predict3rdciv) 8,065 words -
second use of this page
How U.S. Capitalism might End
What comes after Bush's war? (capitalismend)
5,256
words
Is Prediction Even Possible?
Some ways it might be (prediction1) 1,878
words
Why its impossible
to predict the future of the stock market and such things: They
require knowledge of anothers thoughts which are opaque (prediction2)
3,165 words
Statements
of the Theory in Five Epochs of Civilization:
Summary page for short statements of the theory in Five Epochs of Civilization
by William McGaughey (statement) 131 words
Content: Here we have several formulation of the
thesis presented in Five Epochs of Civilization. There is also a summary
of the content of each chapter in this book. Additionally, we have articles
related to comparative civilizations and the clash of civilizations.
Description of the book,
Five Epochs of Civilization: This book tells the
story of humanity in terms of five civilizations (gensummary2)
417 words
Summary of Five Epochs
of Civilization: World history as the story of
how our society came to be (gensummary) 698
words
Summary of Individual
Chapters: Synopsis of chapters in the book, Five
Epochs of Civilization (chaptersumm) 2,331
words
A
Definition of Civilization
following the scheme of Five Epochs of Civilization (iscsciviliation)
883 words
World History and the
Five Civilizations: An article written by William
McGaughey for the Spring 2002 issue of Comparative Civilization Review
(iscscarticle) 6,625 words
The
social mitosis: cell like division in human societies
How societies become more complex throughout world history (socialmitosis)
164 words Content:
This section features a diagram of societys changing structure
as we pass through four epochs of world history. There is also a written
explanation of the diagram.
Diagram of Emerging Institutions
in Civilized Society The social mitosis, or process
of cell like division applied to human societies (diagram)
picture only
Explanation of Diagram
How human society has become structurally more complex
with each historical epoch (diagram2 ) 826
words
Create
and Teach World History Summary page
for writings about how world history might be taught (createandteach)
464 words
Content: Is world history simply a subject to be taught in schools or
can it become a means of instilling purpose in individuals and so of
uplifting society? This web site takes the view that todays world
history curricula could stand improvement, especially in the Advanced
Placement courses. It also presents a proposal developed in 2002 to
create a new World History Charter School in St. Paul. Beyond this,
we are encouraged to dream a bit about world history. What nontraditional
approaches might be followed to make historical consciousness a living
reality? How can we free history from the political agendas that currently
afflict it? Above all, how can we create a universal world history,
free of the ethnic and national biases found in most textbooks? Five
Epochs of Civilization focuses upon communication technologies and structures
of society rather than histories of particular people. This web site
reaches out, however imperfectly, to persons who do not speak English
by including parallel pages in several other languages.
My
history education Slim on
credentials but lucky to have come across Toynbee and other great
historians (myhistoryeducation)
2431 words
Why World History Needs Fixing:
Some criticisms of the current approach to teaching
world history (fixing) 293 words
How this Web site can
help to Teach or Learn History: New ways of teaching
world history (teachhistory) 1,660 words
A Controversy in Academic
Circles: Whether world history is driven mainly
by contacts between civilizations (controversy) 1,047
words
Criticisms of Advanced
Placement Curriculum in World History: How a committee
of eight teachers has controlled world history theory (apworldhistory
) 3,193 words
Feedback Page: How
to use this web site in teaching world history (feedback) 673
words
Proposal for a World History Charter
School: In response to Gates Foundation call for
five new charter high schools in St. Paul, Minnesota (charterschool
) 7,283 words
Goethe's Three Questions:
We seek to find the right story (goethe) 428
words
What can a Theory of World
History Do for Me? Finding the right story in which
to insert oneself (doforme) 909 words
Creating World History:
Proposals to build a structure of writings and images
to tell the story of humanity (createhistory)
2,302 words
A "Dictionary of Man"
Bob
Geldof and BBC team up to record every human society on earth (geldof)
1,054 words
Some Possible Projects:
Related to World History Ideas of different ways to promote world
history (possibleprojects) 1,375 words
The Wrong Kind of History:
Which makes other people look bad (wronghistory)
1,447 words
Talk on Holocaust Studies at MCHE Conference
A
view on the proper use of history (holocaust)
3,616 words
Call for Another Model of
History: One which views history as a creation
story rather than the triumph of a particular people (model)
4,781 words
A New Model of History in China:
A textbook introduced in Shanghai schools downgrades
politics for the sake of a more balanced picture of human affairs
(shanghaihistory) 646
words
A Further Perspective:
Parable of the elephant and the blind men (elephant)
300 words
About
these Languages: Where English, French,
Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Italian are widely spoken and by how
many (language) 652 words
World Population
Human population of the earth in selected
years between 10000 B.C. and 1999 A.D. (population) 270
words
On
the Nature of Civilizations Summary
page with articles on the nature of civilizations (civnature)
377 words
Content: Civilizations are differentiated from
other kinds of society by their greater degree of wealth and cultural
sophistication. This is considered a desirable condition. At the same
time, wars and social decay are a part of their historical experience.
What is Civilization? A
society or culture?
(civilizationscheme)
1,046 words
Civilization and the Envious
Outsider: Images of Wealth and Refinement to Beguile
the Masses (outsider) 1,666 words
A Neo-Hegelian View of Human Societies
Why the world moves in a direction of greater complexity
(complexity) 3,078
words
An “Internal
Dynamic” causing the Decline and Fall of Civilizations 2,673
words A
presentation at the 39th conference of the International
Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Business versus Government:
Struggle between civilizations (busvgov) 2,549
words
China, Persia, and the
"Clash of Civilizations" Random thoughts
on contact between diverse civilizations (chinapersia) 2,855
words
An
Underground View of the 39th ISCSC International Conference
at Western
Michigan University in June 2009 26,241 words
Symbolic
Implications of my “Underground View” of the 2009
ISCSC Conference 1,753
words
Book Home Page: How
to order Five Epochs of Civilization (book) 255
words Content: This page is about the book,
Five Epochs of Civilizations: World History as Emerging in Five Civilizations.
How can a viewer order this book? Who is the author? Who is the authors
father? What have book reviewers said about Five Epochs of Civilization?
What other books has the author written and published?
About the Author of Five
Epochs of Civilization: Events in the Life
of William McGaughey (author) 795 words
William McGaughey,
Sr.: Father of the author of Five Epochs of
Civilization (authorsfather) 2,006
words
Reviews of Five Epochs
of Civilization: Reviews of book from Pakistan,
China, India, Nigeria, and the U.S. (bookreviews) 4,452
words
Other books written by
William McGaughey: Books on various subjects spanning
a 25 year period (otherbooks) 297 words
Rhythm and Self-Consciousness
Ideals and issues for the entertainment culture (rhythmsummary)
349 words Content:
This section explores the philosophical ideals of the fourth civilization,
which is a culture of entertainment. An elusive quality, here given
the name of "rhythm", characterizes outstanding performances,
whether in drama, music, or athletics. Self-consciousness is an impediment
to the proper mental conditioning needed to achieve rhythm.
The Concepts of Rhythm and
Self-Consciousness Rhythm as an ideal of Electronic
Civilization; Self-Consciousness, an Obstacle to Rhythm (rhythm)
774 words
Rhythm and Self-Consciousness:
An Example of Each Rhythm in an examination in
Aikido; Self-Consciousness lacking in a boy's thought (rhythm1)
415 words
Rhythm and Self Consciousness:
New Ideals for an Electronic Civilization - About
the book, Rhythm and Self Consciousness, and its two concepts (rhythm2)
158 words
WorldHistorySite.com
- earlier version Gateway to world
history (gateway2 ) 191 words
Links WorldHistorySite.com:
Links to other web sites (links)
Letters
to the Editor: Reader comments
intended for publication (letters) 151
words
What People are Visiting on
this Website What
are their interests and what languages do they speak? An
analysis of hits to the various pages, broken down by language
(count)
Site Directory A
listing of pages in Worldhistorysite.com organized by topic (sitedirectory)
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