I’ve always really respected the early-20th Century author Rene Guenon, who wrote very challenging and very intelligent works on what I’d term “Alt-Spirituality” in the sense that Alt-History is gaining acceptance. But regardless…

One of his central theories was called “The False Return”, which stated that with the entrance of any Truth into the world, there will inevitably occur over time a degradation (& justification of that degradation) of that Truth, until the people will clamor for Truth again.

And at that point they’ll be given a False Return that has the ‘feel of truthiness’ for what they want to return to, but will mislead most of them to even greater damnation.

He said this process was to winnow the seeds from the chaff, so that the Truth could emerge again.

Not looking to write an essay, just floating that thought out there.

Happy Holidays!