Stages of Modernity: A Timeline

Just a rough idea I've had spinning around in my head as of late. This is a way of chopping up modernity into distinct periods. In my book, modernity begins after the effects of the Renaissance and Reformation each fully left their mark up the destiny of European culture. So, by this, modernity begins roughly around 1550 CE.

1550 - 1790 -- Early Modern Period
Cultural after-effects of the Renaissance, Printing Press, Oceanic Exploration of the World and Colonization, Protestant Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Classical Liberal Thinkers, Decline of Catholic Church, Spread of Occult/Esoteric and Fraternal Orders, Early Industrial Innovations

1790 - 1965 -- High Modern Period (Twilight of the Piscean Age)
Formation of the United States of America, Republicanism, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Mass Literacy, Spread and Institutionalization of Liberalism, Formation of Social Liberal and Socialist Doctrines, Decline of Christian Religiosity into its Twin Offspring of Social Liberalism and Literalist Fundamentalism, Abolition of Slavery, American Republicanism morphs into Democracy, Germ Theory and Modern Medicine, Electrification of Cities and Towns, the Automobile, the Airplane, Mass Mechanization, Nietzsche Declares the Death of Pisces Age Religiosity, Implementation of Totalitarian Ideologies like Communism and Fascism, World Wars, Degradation of Art and Architecture into Abstract and Utilitarian Forms, Decline of Religiosity, Atomic Theory and Nuclear Weapons

1965 - 2016 -- Postmodern Period -- DECLINE OF FAUSTIAN CULTURE + The Rise of the Aquarian Age Cataclysms
Space Exploration Programs, Rise of Mass Media and Pop Culture, Population Explosion in the Developing World while Western Fertility Rates Start Declining, Cold War between USA and Soviet Union, Further Decline of Religiosity and Secularization of Civic/Community Life, Decline of Communities and "liberation" of Individuals into Atomized Consumption Units, University Education as a Mass Consumer Activity (and thus the decline of Higher Education), Scientific Materialism as an Academic Orthodoxy, Mass Entrance of Women into the Workforce in Tandem with Feminist Ideologies, Mass-Immigration of People from the Developing, World Automation and Computerization, the Internet, Failure/Collapse of Communist States, Pax Americana and the Attempt to Universalize Liberal Ideology, Rapid Extinction of Species and the Mass-Despoliation of the Environment, Adaptation of Western Technologies by East Asian Countries, Democracy degrades into Vote Farming and the Clash of Self-Interested Power and Self-Interest Blocs.

2016 - ?? -- Contraction Period
Fading out of Pisces Age Religious Forms and the Subsequent Rise of Eccentric and Syncretic Aquarian Religious Movements, Collapse of Liberalism and Neoliberal Institutions, Slowing Down of Technological Advances, Disappearance of Civic Pride and Virtues, Further Destruction of Communities and Atomization of Individuals, Rise of Populism due to the Popular Pushback Against Globalization and Globalized Neoliberal Oligarch Overreach, Collapse of Liberal Academia, Mass Distrust in Institutions and Official Notions of Expertise, Balkanization and Re-Localization of the West, Economic Decline and Contraction, Collapse of Universalistic Ideologies, Growing Distrust of Materialist Ideologies, Environmental Collapse and Population Dieoffs, Civil Wars, Political Revolutions and Collapses, Collapse of Democratic Systems and the Rise of Military Cliques to fill the Vacuum, Police States and Caesarism Becomes the Norm, Reconstitution of Traditional Family and Community Structures, Migration Movements.


Broader Western Civilization Timeline

(Rise of Apollonian Culture, Halfway thru the Age of Aries)
1200 - 800 BCE -- Formation period
800 - 450 BCE -- Archaic period
450 - 100 BCE -- High Hellenistic period
100 BCE - 250 CE -- Roman Period (Age of Pisces Begins)

(Decline of Apollonian Culture)
250 - 500 CE -- Late Antiquity (beginning of (Magian pseudomorphosis)
500 - 1000 -- Early Christian Period (Intensified Magian pseudomorphosis)

(Rise of Faustian Culture)
1100 - 1400 -- High Middle Ages
1400 - 1550 -- Renaissance period (Magian pseudomorphosis fades out)
1550 - 1790 -- Early Modern Period (Maturation of Faustian Culture)
1790 - 1965 -- High Modern Period (Pisces gives way to Aquarius)

(Decline of Faustian Culture)
1965 - 2016 -- Postmodern Period (Start of Aquarian Age, Prelude to Caesarism + Liberalism declining into Decadence)
2016 - ?? -- Contraction Period (De-Faustianization of USA, Rise of Populism, Collapse of Liberalism, Balkanization of the West, Another pseudomorphosis??)

Note: We could probably argue that the Contraction Period is merely the second phase of the Postmodern Period.