“Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism”
Eschaton = the final thing or final invention
(Also called “the transcendental object at the end of time”.)
History is the shockwave that precedes the eschaton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Qu5hbZ8Q8
Terence McKenna - The Human Eschaton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgEqQAIpLoo
TIME IS SPEEDING UP - Terence McKenna
Also...
https://www.organism.earth/library/document/eros-and-the-eschaton
Terence McKenna: “It’s very important to science to eliminate from its thinking any suspicion that this eschaton might exist. Because if it were to exist, it would impart to reality a purpose, you see? If the eschaton exists, then it’s like a goal, or an attraction point, or an energy sink toward which historical process is being moved. And science is incredibly hostile toward the idea of purpose. If you are not involved in the sciences this may come as somewhat of a surprise to you. If you are a workbench scientist or a theoretician, you know that this is what’s called the problem of teleology. It is because modern science defined itself in the nineteenth century, when the reigning philosophy was deism—and deism was the idea that the universe is a clock made by God, and God wound this clock and has walked away from it, and the clock will eventually run down. That theological construct was poisonous to evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century. And so they said: we must create a theory of reality that does not require a goal, does not require a purpose. Everything must be pushed from the past. Nothing must be pulled toward the future.”
“The problem with this is that it does not fulfill our intuitions about reality. We can see that evolution—biological evolution—has built on chemical systems. We can see that social and historical systems build on biology. As people with open minds—or as open as they can be inside this culture—we nevertheless have this intuition of purpose. And it is dramatically underscored by the psychedelic experience, which takes the raw material of your life, your culture, your history and tells you this is not an existential mishmash to be lived out with dignity because there’s nothing else to be done with it in some kind of Camusian ‘Why not?’ affirmation. It says, ‘No!’ It says: your reality is a coherent cosmos. And embedded in your own sense of identity, embedded in your own sense of purpose, is a microscopic reflection of the larger purpose that is built into the universe.”
(FYI, Terence McKenna advocates psychedelic experiences. I do not advocate psychedelics and have never tried them.)