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Perpetualism
Philosophy developed by academician Athol Kamani on the Solar Dominion world of Mithras during the integration age.
Claimed that archailect cultures tend to be perpetual and effectively immortal, as long as the archailect that promotes them wants them to last or as long as the archailect eirself.
The reputation of perpetualism philosophy was seriously damaged by events of the Version War, which disproved several of its theses (one being that a major interstellar war was not possible in a archailect mediated civilization).
However, following the reconstruction period and with the rise of the Commonwealth of Empires (ComEmp) a number of newer versions of Perpetualism developed. Most of these were forms of "weak Perpetualism", such as Ngian Perpetualism, which was developed by the Ngist School of Perpetualists on Latimer Habitat, as opposed to the "strong Perpetualism" of Kamani.
During the Period of Fragmentation there was a sort of ideological conflict, a few times heating up to a memetic war on some worlds, between Ngian Perpetualism and Sabinian Kalyptism, the former indicating a more or less stable civilization, the latter predicting a collapse of the established order.
Different schools of Perpetualism are very interested in xenopaleological research, trying to find out whether extinct aliens had archailects.
Claimed that archailect cultures tend to be perpetual and effectively immortal, as long as the archailect that promotes them wants them to last or as long as the archailect eirself.
History
Perpetualism became a popular historical interpretation during the Integration, especially in Dominion and, to a lesser extent, Negentropist worlds.The reputation of perpetualism philosophy was seriously damaged by events of the Version War, which disproved several of its theses (one being that a major interstellar war was not possible in a archailect mediated civilization).
However, following the reconstruction period and with the rise of the Commonwealth of Empires (ComEmp) a number of newer versions of Perpetualism developed. Most of these were forms of "weak Perpetualism", such as Ngian Perpetualism, which was developed by the Ngist School of Perpetualists on Latimer Habitat, as opposed to the "strong Perpetualism" of Kamani.
During the Period of Fragmentation there was a sort of ideological conflict, a few times heating up to a memetic war on some worlds, between Ngian Perpetualism and Sabinian Kalyptism, the former indicating a more or less stable civilization, the latter predicting a collapse of the established order.
Different schools of Perpetualism are very interested in xenopaleological research, trying to find out whether extinct aliens had archailects.
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Development Notes
Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 19 December 2001.
Initially published on 19 December 2001.
