Time Is Not a Straight Line, It Is a Circle

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The Cycles of TV show Dark and book The Fourth Turning

Format: Socratic Roundtable
The Premise: We are taught that time is an arrow—flying straight from the past into a new and unrelated future. But what if that is an illusion?
In the Netflix series Dark, the characters are trapped in a 33-year Lunar Cycle where "The beginning is the end." In Neil Howe’s The Fourth Turning, we are trapped in an 80-year Saeculum where history repeats its "seasons" with chilling predictability.
This session connects the philosophy of Winden’s time travel with the sociology of our current "Crisis" era. We will not be lecturing; we will be questioning. Using the Socratic Method, we will challenge our assumptions about free will, destiny, and the shape of history.
The Socratic Inquiry (Key Questions for Discussion):

• On the Shape of Time: Dark posits that time is a loop (the Triquetra), while The Fourth Turning argues it is a spiral. If time is indeed circular, does "progress" actually exist, or are we simply re-enacting the same plays with different costumes?
• On The "Winter": In Dark, the characters must endure an Apocalypse to reset the knot. In The Fourth Turning, society must endure a Crisis (War/Collapse) to reset the institutional cycle. Is destruction a bug in the system, or is it a necessary feature for rebirth?
• On Agency vs. Determinism: In the show, characters like Jonas try to "break the cycle" but often end up causing it. In history, do we have the free will to avoid a Fourth Turning, or do our generational archetypes (Prophet, Nomad, Hero, Artist) lock us into a script written before we were born?
• On the "Glitch": If we are currently in the middle of a historical repetition (a Fourth Turning), what is the "Ariadne's Thread" that allows us to navigate the labyrinth? Is it possible to break the loop, or must we simply survive it?

Join us to unravel the knot.