Crest-Null Philosophy: Cycles of Civilization

By Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich)

Crest-Null Philosophy: Cycles of Temporal Flux and Cataclysmic Recursion

The Crest-Null Philosophy proposes that human civilization does not advance in a straight line but moves in recurring cycles of Temporal Crests and Cataclysmic Nulls: periods of dense, dynamic cultural momentum followed by catastrophic resets that erase complexity and force civilizational rebirth. Drawing from archaeological anomalies, geological catastrophism, and demographic analysis, this framework rejects the linear-progress model of history and replaces it with a recursive one. Seven civilizational eras are mapped from the Proto-Intelligence Dawn through the present, with each interpreted as either a Crest phase of expansion or a Null event of collapse and recursion. The philosophy establishes its own ontology, metaphysics, historiography, anthropology, and ethical imperative: that demographic resilience is the primary moral mandate of any civilization aware of its cyclical condition. Five falsifiable archaeological and genomic predictions are offered for verification between 2025 and 2030, grounding the framework in empirical accountability. The Crest-Null Philosophy constitutes a complete and standalone philosophical worldview, independent of any prior cosmological system.

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