important theories of history that broke too late to make the piece.
The loop spiral is an attempt, for one thing, to get rid of the still-whiggish simple loop structure, which presses forward even as it turns back. The loop spiral 'blooms' rather than progresses.
At every moment history becomes more complex, because it accumulates or accretes and never loses events and entities; that is, whatever has happened will never not have happened; history is cumulative. Even if the universe were to collapse into a single point, its history would still be expanding.
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Yes it's true; the loop spiralTM also resembles a net, or history as an entanglement. Plus the merchandising possibilities are myriad.
