History appears in an indistinguishable maze of meaningless events, as certain moments stand out fraught with profound and lasting significance. These moments, capable of being linked with each other, can be characterized as irruptions of the transcendence into man’s existence, the impact of the eternal on time. In this sense Voegelin remarks that only a people under God have history. This paradoxical concept of transcendence operating immanently within man’s history, the idea that man freely makes history and then history in turn makes man, is quite similar to Vico’s paradoxical concept of Providence which is both transcendent and immanent at the same time. What remains important is that man does not conceive these cycles in a deterministic mode and that he remains able to return imaginatively and even rationally to preceding cycles where the origin of his humanity lies.
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This link is disingenuous. Earth Day was co-opted DAY ONE.
https://www.iatp.org/news/corporations-co-opt-earth-day
Even Earth Day Network is guilty of dipping into corporate coffers. The organization is working with Office Depot to provide water testing kits to schools. And for three weeks around Earth Day, its logo with the question "Who says you can't change the world?" will be wrapped around every Starbucks coffee cup.
"When it comes down to it, the money has to come from somewhere," said Sara Doss, the administrative director of the Citizens' Environmental Coalition. "They are trying to change the way they do business. We all pollute when it comes down to it.":
This link is amusing in it’s Earth Day discussion. https://grist.org/article/2009-04-22-secret-history-of-earth-day/
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-citings/earth-day-too-greenwashed/articleshow/99676705.cms?from=mdr
https://gobraithwaite.com/thinking/marketing-planet-earth/