Synchronization & Asynchrony: The Politics of Time
Synchronization & Asynchrony: The Politics of Time
Volumes I & II — by Churchill Hunn
Volume I
Volume II
An open-source work of political theory. The full text is available online for free below. Physical copies are available on Amazon for those who prefer a printed edition.
Introduction
Volume I: Meta-Conservatism — A Temporal Framework
About Volume I
Meta-Conservatism: A Temporal Framework presents a fundamental rethinking of political classification, arguing that traditional categories like “left” and “right” fail because they catalog surface policies without examining the ontological premises that generate them. The true fault line is temporal: whether history possesses a knowable endpoint or society is merely an unending evolutionary process.
At its foundation lies a distinction between two ideal types derived from opposing temporal stances:
The Blueprint Type — belief that history moves toward a perfect state. Ethics are teleological: infinite good justifies finite suffering.
The Principle Type — no endpoint exists. Ethics are deontological: principles constrain goals regardless of outcomes.
The volume introduces Meta-Conservatism as an analytical tool to identify Principle logic across conservative thought—from Burkean traditionalism to American constitutionalism to Hayekian liberalism—unified by their shared temporal stance.
- Part I: The Classification Problem
- Chapter 1 — The Classification Problem
- Chapter 2 — Time as Criterion
- Part II: Complete Political Logics
- Chapter 3 — The Blueprint Worldview
- Chapter 4 — The Principle Worldview
- Chapter 5 — Meta-Conservatism
Volume II: Culture War — From Words to Worldviews
About Volume II
Culture War: From Words to Worldviews descends into the trenches to show that political conflict is a war of temporal logics fought through institutional architecture, cultural symbols, conceptual vocabulary, and linguistic control.
On the institutional battlefield, Blueprint logic demands centralization, substitution of planning for markets, and systematic destruction of intermediary institutions. Market authoritarianism is structurally unstable because economic asynchrony inevitably demands political expression.
The book performs surgical reclassifications: neoconservatism is a Blueprint project in conservative costume; Trump and MAGA are Principle defense—a restoration of sovereignty against elite-imposed synchronization.
Contemporary political correctness, cancel culture, and DEI frameworks are soft synchronization mechanisms. The Language War is the primary battlefield: four operations—historical reclassification, label appropriation, conceptual weaponization, stigmatizing deployment—create a linguistic prison.
The question is never “Is this left or right?” but: Does this position pursue an ideal endpoint through forced synchronization, or does it guard evolutionary processes through constrained adaptation?
- Part III: Concrete Battlegrounds
- Chapter 6 — Institutional Battlegrounds
- Chapter 7 — Cultural Fronts
- Part IV: Conceptual Battlegrounds
- Chapter 8 — Mapping the Political Spectrum
- Chapter 9 — Conceptual Battlegrounds
- Part V: Methodological Reflection
- Chapter 10 — Methodological Reflection
- Chapter 11 — Scope, Limits, and Responsible Use
Open source · GitHub
Volume I: Buy on Amazon ·
Volume II: Buy on Amazon
Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0