Summary of The Oqual Cycle: The 84-Year Rhythm of Human Civilization (2023) E-Book

Amjad Farooq

• Herausgeber: Oquannium Xpress
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

This book is a summary of The oqual Cycle without an in-depth analysis.  

Briefly, almost every nation today is teetering on the brink of a societal meltdown as it finds itself in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval, the like of which has not hitherto been witnessed in our lifetime.

Yet, hardly anyone realizes that like a winter that returns every year, such a concerted turmoil across the globe is also periodic due to what I have dubbed the "oqual cycle".

On the basis of scientific reasoning and mathematical modeling of history over the past 600 years, the oqual cycle posits that human civilization seemingly undergoes a sweeping global reset once every 84 years on average in order to purge itself of a plethora of wrongdoings from the societal ills through excesses and imbalances to transgressions amassed over that multidecadal period.

Unfortunately, there is no free music as one must pay the piper.

Indeed, such a societal reboot (or revitalization) is typically accomplished through a global conflict with the potential to not only wreak havoc but also strike fear into the hearts and minds of people on an apocalyptic scale so that they can put their sociopolitical differences aside and come together for the common good of the world at large.

The oqual cycle therefore lends human society a subtle albeit deadly mechanism to break ties with its dysfunctional past in order to begin anew rather than being held hostage from moving forward under its own weight, or even worse, continue down the rabbit hole in perpetuity with the potential for self-destruction.

Taken together, Summary of The Oqual Cycle is a must-read for everyone in that it will not only dramatically transform your perspective on how you view the world and your own place within it but it will also become your best companion to guide you as you navigate the dire fallout from the ongoing sociopolitical upheaval around much of the globe over the next decade or so and when you can expect to see everything around you to be hunky-dory once again like the good old days from the second half of 20th century.

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Book Essentials

Final Version on 2023-08-18

First Published on 2023-05-05

Published by Oquannium Xpress

Length: 32 kilowords

Approximate Reading Time: 6 hours

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CONTENTS

|1| Preface

|2| Prologue

|3| Genesis

|4| Doctrine

|5| Generations

|6| Epilogue

|7| Literature

|1| PREFACE

Today, almost every nation-on-earth is teetering on the brink of a societal meltdown as it finds itself in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval, the like of which has not hitherto been witnessed in our lifetime.

Yet, hardly anyone realizes that like a winter that returns every year, such a concerted turmoil across the globe is also periodic due to what I have dubbed the "oqual cycle"—with the adjective "oqual" coined from Latin and literally meaning "84-year" with the oqual cycle therefore essentially being the "84-year cycle".

Admittedly, most public institutions around the world not only seem to have lost credibility but they have also seemingly become irrelevant.

Such a once-in-a-lifetime synchronization of dire sociopolitical straits across much of the globe is no coincidence but rather written in the stars thanks to the mysterious spell of oqual cycle on human civilization.

Not only here at home in America but friends and frenemies from every corner of the world also confide in me:

"What happened to our civil liberties that we once had taken for granted during much of our earlier lives?"

"What happened to what were once our rock-solid institutions that provided stability and direction in the face of adversity?"

"What happened to the good old institution of marriage and our moral compass that once defined who we were?"

"What happened to the rather upbeat zeitgeist of our earlier lives?"

Well, they have all been temporarily oqualled (or silenced) rather than being forever quelled due to the dire spell of oqual cycle that began a quarter-of-a-century ago almost at the outset of 21st century.

However, the good old days are just round the corner and inching ever closer so as to herald the beginning of a new dawn of hope and prosperity after the dust from the looming World War III has settled in about a decade or so as the oqual cycle draws to a close.

What in the world is oqual cycle?

On the basis of scientific reasoning and mathematical modeling of history over the past 600 years, the oqual cycle posits that human civilization seemingly undergoes a sweeping global reset once every 84 years on average in order to purge itself of a plethora of wrongdoings from the societal ills through excesses and imbalances to transgressions amassed over that multidecadal period.

Unfortunately, there is no free music as one must pay the piper.

Indeed, such a societal reboot (or revitalization) is typically accomplished through a global conflict with the potential to not only wreak havoc but also strike fear into the hearts and minds of people on an apocalyptic scale so that they can put their sociopolitical differences aside and come together for the common good of the world at large.

The oqual cycle therefore lends human society a subtle albeit deadly mechanism to break ties with its dysfunctional past in order to begin anew rather than being held hostage from moving forward under its own weight, or even worse, continue down the rabbit hole in perpetuity with the potential for self-destruction.

More specifically, the oqual cycle posits that the sociopolitical progress of human civilization does not follow a linear course but rather it waxes and wanes in a cyclical manner over a period of 84 years due to what appears to be its coupling with the orbiting of the second outermost planet Uranus around the Sun.

Put another way, the overall human progress waxes and wanes in a sinusoidal manner over the course of oqual cycle in a similar fashion to the waxing and waning of the Moon over the course of a lunar month.

In fact, almost every facet of human civilization from politics through economy to climate appears to be beholden to an 84-year rhythm that propagates in sync with the oqual cycle in a manner reminiscent of our daily and annual rituals.

The oqual cycle is thus essentially a lower-order harmonic of the daily and annual cycles in that the trio seemingly act in a concerted fashion to orchestrate the full gamut of our extraordinary and complex lives.

Of particular note is the salient observation that Uranus appears to exert a subtle control over human civilization by virtue of its ability to modulate the terrestrial climate in a sinusoidal fashion in sync with the oqual cycle in a manner akin to the annual climate cycle dictated by the orbiting of Earth around the Sun.

Admittedly, the unprecedented rise in global temperature witnessed over the past quarter-of-a-century is in no small part due to the Uranian spell on our planet and, as such, global warming is expected to not only plateau out but also head south as the current oqual cycle draws to a close over the next decade or so.

Likewise, the wrath of natural disasters from droughts through flooding to storms with an increasing frequency and intensity seen over the past quarter-of-a-century also seems to be largely due to the cyclical flux of our planet undergoing a self-cleansing process under the watchful eye of oqual cycle rather than a direct consequence of human activities.

While the drummed-up specter of global warming seems to be nothing more than a hyperbole hatched by devious actors around the globe in order to advance their propaganda, there appears to be nevertheless a seemingly upward trend in global temperature over the long run though far from being anywhere near as apocalyptic as that forecast by climate scientists.

Importantly, the oqual cycle not only serves as a model par excellence for making sense of the rapid climate change swamping our planet but also the ongoing sociopolitical trials-and-tribulations of our own times that in no small part elicit a wistful yearning for the rather sweet memories of our recent past from the second half of the 20th century.

To say that the oqual cycle represents a Rosetta stone of human civilization that should help us navigate our future with rational wisdom in lieu of blissful ignorance would be to put it mildly.

Taken together, The Oqual Cycle is a must-read for everyone in that it not only transcends national, ethnic, political, religious, and demographic boundaries but it will also become your most-trusted companion to guide you as you navigate uncharted landscape of your life—the younger you are, the more relevant the oqual cycle is to your life.

|2| PROLOGUE

In 1971, I took my first breath in a nondescript abode planted in the middle of nowhere and shrouded in utter wilderness in rural Mirpur—a city located in the foothills of Himalayas in the northeastern region of Azad Kashmir in Pakistan.

Since my early childhood, I have been awestruck by stories of uncannily-similar upheavals paying us homage time and again.

My beloved grandmother often used to share anecdotal accounts of her forefathers and their belief that every century was like a revolving year with many shared features but on an extended timescale.

While attending university in England during the 1990s, I would become familiar with the oft-repeated cliché: “History repeats itself!”

After moving to America as a postdoctoral scholar a couple of years before the 21st century rolled in, I would learn that while history does not repeat, it nevertheless rhymes and chimes as if it were an integral part of our DNA.

More recently, I would learn that the rise and fall of great powers typically occurs over a cyclical pattern of roughly between 80-120 years as theorized by the Polish-American political scientist George Modelski in his 1987 book titled "Long Cycles in World Politics" [1]—though Modelski's model is based on some questionable data and misinterpretation of historical facts, not to mention that the author is obsessed with the notion of each new century ushering in the rise of a new hegemonic power at odds with reality and, in doing so, he completely dehegemonizes the towering roles that the likes of Spain and France played in shaping the world during much of the 16th and 18th centuries, respectively.

Next, I would stumble upon the work of American historians William Strauss and Neil Howe published in their 1997 book titled “The Fourth Turning” [2]—although difficult to read particularly with regard to its biblical approach rather than a scientific one, I was nevertheless able to curate the central premise of Strauss-Howe model that can be summed up as human civilization cycling through a long human life that spans a period of between 80-100 years with each cycle ending in a crisis of epic proportions.

Oqual Cycle

Annual Cycle

Daily Cycle

Periodicity

84 years

1 year

24 hours

Quarterly

Equivalent

21 years

3 months

6 hours

Monthly

Equivalent

7 years

1 month

2 hours

Seasonal Equivalents

Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter

Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter

Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Night

Celestial

Origin

Orbiting of Uranus around the Sun

Orbiting of Earth

around the Sun

Spinning of Earth

on its polar axis

Functional

Significance

Global reset

Annual rituals

Daily activities

Comparison of oqual cycle with the daily and annual cycles

► For further details, see The Oqual Cycle

However, according to the mathematically-driven work of Russian-American ecologist-turned-anthropologist Peter Turchin published in his 2016 book titled “Ages of Discord” [3], such cycles of human civilization are envisioned to last between 150-200 years—though Turchin's model is based on historical records that barely stretch back three centuries and it is therefore not clear how the author can make such outlandish claims against the backdrop of a rather limited timespan of data at his fingertips.

Tellingly, the aforementioned books paint a very confusing picture that leaves one wandering whether the cycles of human civilization last 80, 100, 120, 150, or 200 years—or, perhaps, they occur randomly without a fixed periodicity in which case the whole thing becomes somewhat murky stripping a logical mind of any real enthusiasm of paying heed to such doctrine.

Being a logically-driven mind to the quartic power coupled with an analytical and perfectionist approach to life thanks to my Virgoan cosmotype, I was understandably dumbstruck by the lack of a methodical strategy adopted by the authors in the aforementioned triad of models proposed for the cyclical nature of human civilization.

Admittedly, genuine cycles such as our daily and annual rhythms operate over a predefined timespan, and cycles without a fixed periodicity represent nothing more than a conjecture rather than a serious scientific framework.