Como uma bola colorida nas mãos de uma criança

A civilização dirige-se para algum lado, isso é certo. É comum à esquerda e à direita o argumento da dinâmica civilizacional. À esquerda usa-se recuo civilizacional, à direita usa-se um duplo registo: ou regresso à selvajaria  ou destruição da dita civilização.
Horbiger foi aproveitado pelos  nazis ( eterno  retorno,  conspiração judaica da relatividade  de Einstein etc):

Hitler's fatal confidence in the success of his troops on the
Russian front during the 1941 - 2 winter is generally believed to
have been a result of his misplaced faith in Horbiger's weather
forecasts. Despite such setbacks, the Welteislehre managed to
thrive even after the war. The popular speculations of Immanuel
Velikovsky derive in part from Horbiger. In 1953 a survey conduc-
ted by Martin Gardner showed that more than a million people in
Germany, England, and the U.S. believed that Horbiger was right.6
  The Horbigerian cosmology posited an early epoch, some fifteen
million years ago, during which a hugh moon moved across the 
sky very near the earth. Its gravitational attraction gave rise to a
race of our ancestors, the giants. These giants, which appear in
the ancient Norse and Icelandic sagas, sleep, yet they are alive.
To the Nazis, they were Supermen. In one set of myths, contained
in the Nibelungenlied, they lived beneath Teutonic mountains. In
another they were prototype Aryans from the East, inhabiting VAST
Tibetan caverns.
 
 Encontre no debate o eterno retorno e o grande gelo: