Isaac Asimov: Foundation and the pre-planned history? Do any of you see similarity with events?

he took references from existing world.AMISH WERE CALLED AMISH AND IN THOSE DAYS RUSSIANS AND AMERICANS WERE WORKING ON MIND CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES WHICH WERE REFLECTED IN HIS NOVELS

There is clear similarities with present day world. Motives are taken from real world events. Empires did collapse numerous times. History of such events is extremely obscure, but similar principles remain in all of these. It is possible to find lots of examples.
Psychohistory is hardly all about predetermination of events. It is more like a tool in shaping history.

civiliztions fall they rise...life goes on...it's just energy

It's more about effectiveness of that energy. Culture evolves through more effective means, growth, stretching of all resources, overgrowth, collapse or fall by conquest or splitting.
And yet there are some really interesting, unexpected things to find there. Have been reading an ancient dispute between Scythians and Egyptians which nation is more ancient, both using prehistoric creation myths, but there is no dispute about them, just which nation could have had a better chance to survive in these times. Mind boggling considering our times and what is written there.

Thinking about name Trantor I caused a matrix turbulence.

Got quite scared.

Actually I read the original Foundation also but totally forgotten.

I might have a peak into his scientific book I have

Foundation was inspired by the fall of Rome, the Middle Ages that followed, and how it was the monasteries that managed to conserve at least some of the knowledge of antiquity.

Psychohistory is fictional, we're not close to anything like that.
We can't even predict next years grain prices.

It was written in the optimistic 50s, when the potential of collapse of Western civilisation by other causes then global warfare wasn't realised.

So, no.
Asimov wasn't trying to predict anything

You said all the usual things about Asimov's trilogy.

I do not think anyone here was trying to imply that psycohistory was or could be a reality.
No one was trying to say Asimov was trying to "predict".
The thing I was trying to say is: is it possible that a group of people (illuminati) can steer and guide human history over over periods of many centuries? Is it possible that Asimov KNEW about such a thing?!

I know it's pretty hard to understand if you don't read what we are talking about.

They are not doing a good job.
Being able to do so would require you to be able to predict future scientific breakthroughs.
Not possible.


He would just have written an essay.
Asimov was never obtuse.

H- amish, Hamish ?
www.adherents.com/lit/sf_amish.html [link to www.adherents.com]

It was inspired by the fall of the Rome and fall of other empires.
Monasteries conserving ancient knowledge? How much knowledge do you have about your country before Christianity 100BC, 1AD, 100AD, 200AD? I'm not talking about Rome and Greece. If you'll get the answer to that, get it for the neighboring countries. It is pretty much the same, history starts form Christianity or with it, isn't it (or I'm wrong here)?
You may easily find second foundation while the first would be Byzantine empire. And classical history goes beyond 1AD in these places primarily.
Problem is not all have knowledge to go beyond that and apply to modern times in a really neat pattern. What happened to Byzantine empire? What happened to Europe following crusades and reformation (with causes of these events)?

You are right, Asimov wasn't trying to predict something, but tried to show tendencies that are repeating from time to time.

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On May 3rd, 2012 in a Polish radio program (can be downloaded I think!) the interviewed history professor felt compelled to mention psychohistory. I thought HUH??

That's just some broken record from Gaia's intestines.

The discipline that calls itself 'psychohistory' has little to do with Asimov's fictional science.
It's also nonsense. [link to rationalwiki.org]

Like i said: none of you seem to get the point. If Asimov knew about an "illuminati" scheme to steer and guide human history towards the creation of an "empire" of some kind and if he wanted to tell his readers what he knew,without risking his own life,then "the Foundation trilogy" would the best way to explain what he knew.
Now I really do not expect that all can and could understand what I'm saying,but it does not seem complicated to me. I am not saying that "all" the things in the nove are true, just the scheme,the giuding force.

When i read Foundation i was so impressed, and i had feel that he really write about us...

This was in time when i did not know about illuminati and secret conspirations, but i had feel of real truth.

It has to do a lot with controlled historical events. There is no fiction in it. Rise of third Rome is early more documented precedent for it. Later there are much more...
To know this you'd have to know history with all details including dirty politics. You won't find this in history books. Well, you won't even find normal detailed history of it.

Asimov most likely knew it extremely well and applied it in more readable form, without much details and just with abstract hints.
You can easily apply it to USA, EU, Israel, former USSR, etc. Just sort it out correctly.

No doubt, Asimov was one of the elite-illuminati:

A LETTER TO THE NEXT GENERATION
ISAAC ASIMOV

" Waiting for a crisis to force us to act globally runs the risk of making us wait too long. "
Some of us in 1989 felt the need for something positive and vital to do that would draw all the nations together to accomplish something that would offer magnificent returns. Was there an indication somewhere in history that this would work - that a positive solution was possible?
[link to www.angelfire.com]

Asimov on world government, carrots and sticks, January 14, 1989
[link to www.youtube.com]

Isaac Asimov on the Greenhouse Effect, January 14, 1989
[link to www.youtube.com]

i was just looking for someone who tought the same, i just read the book, and it really is like asimov was trying to tell how it could be an organization that controls wars, economy, everything(like you said, illuminaties), and it all fits togheter, he was jew, and one of the few ones who didnt support the fresh israel state,which according to William Guy Carr abot one of the letters from Pike to Mazzini, jews and sionist are involved in the third world war, dig some more on it

another thing that i just take in account, do you think its a coincedence the fact that the new empire of the galaxy starts by sending a selected group of people to planet, and then the same people goes in conflict with the other nearby planets, it seems like israel to me. This would mean that actual 'foundation' IRL would be placed there, little by little stablish a new world order, it all fits