Process vs. Event: The 4,000-Year Split Behind Western Civilization

This thesis reframes the central axis of civilizational conflict: not capitalism versus socialism, not progressive versus conservative, but process versus event — nomadology versus eventology. The genealogy is traced to the Indo-Iranian separation across the Hindu Kush roughly four millennia ago. The Indian branch elaborated a nomadological metaphysics: existence as fundamentally cyclical, governed by return and recurrence, where wisdom lies in acceptance of flow. The Iranian branch, through Zarathustra's reform, introduced eventological consciousness — the radical proposition that Human agency can produce Genuine novelty, that history possesses directionality, and that action is ontologically significant rather than merely repetitive.

Western civilization absorbed the eventological impulse through its Abrahamic inheritance but committed what this analysis identifies as a catastrophic structural error: it absolutized a single event — the Incarnation, the Revelation — and compulsively repeated it, foreclosing the very openness to novelty that eventology demands. Nietzsche's eternal recurrence is read here as the most extreme Western confrontation with this tension: facing the nomadological abyss of a directionless Cosmos, the sovereign individual nonetheless chooses to act as though their action carries ultimate weight.

The proposed resolution is dialectical rather than synthetic. There is no global Teleology — the universe is indifferent — but local Teleology is not only permissible but necessary. Complexity increases within constraint systems even absent cosmic purpose. A complete metaphysics must therefore hold nomadology and eventology in productive tension. Civilizational pathology emerges precisely when either pole is suppressed: pure process yields fatalism, pure event yields messianic compulsion. Meaning is made, not found, in the charged space between these two orientations.