I. THE LIE OF STASIS They told you history was a sequence. A straight line, a thread woven by rational hands. They told you progress was forward, that time was a march, that civilization was an arc bending toward something better. This was a deception. Reality does not march. It does not bend. It spirals. It loops. It collapses in on itself, folds outward, splinters, reconstructs, and devours its own past like a serpent choking on its own tail. You have been misled by those who believe in res...