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+Enter cliometrics. If legend, folktale, myth
+is a form of information and meta-history,
+featuring un-individualized heros as variables, then cliometrics is meta-meta-history --- 
+the kind that makes it easier to match events
+up to number-series and can incorporate
+genetics-as-coded-logic --- which itself can
+be used as a kind of history (as history can be
+used as a kind of genetics). Each particular
+person, each event generated becomes a variable in a statistical series. Chosen events in
+a time series are matched up to chosen sets of
+self-transmitting individuals. Cliometrics is
+a sub-branch of those statistical time-series
+that computer archeologists are so found of
+retrojecting back to creation in the attempt to
+make history compatible with logical operations. Cliometrics is quantified history in
+which people and events are graded along
+an importance-scale and matches up to a
+time-scale established by archeology and
+evolution. Cliometrics, more than any other
+kind of historiography, is computer-compatible history.
+
+But then, ascent-mythology reenters. All
+event-clusters on an evolutionary series are
+in fact fungible. The billions-years-trajectory
+is mapped onto a short stretch of human
+history, just as an infinity of natural whole
+numbers can be, say, mapped onto all the
+possible fractions between one and two. But
+like any series, such a construct depends on
+the measurable regularity of events. Catastrophe, the unexpected, must be integrated,
+smoothed out. The catastrophe is cut apart into small segments, the compression stretched
+out and we see that event in regularized, even
+fragments. Why evolution --- which is supposed to move in glacially incremental
+steps --- is matched up to history --- which
+takes place in only a short time --- is an
+obsession --- progress, growth, incremental
+gain --- that the 19th century foisted on us.
+Humans have not changed, not evolved, in
+all the time they have been on earth.
+
+Then the proposition that evolution, as
+applied to humans and their history, is the
+movement from simple to complex, from
+less to more, from worse to better, from chaos
+to order, from primal virus to sub-human to
+human to angelic to god, doesn't work.
+Whereas the latest studies are purported to
+demonstrate that more than fifty percent of
+the economy is information work, a case can
+be made that whatever the conditions, peasant, primitive,
+factory worker, more than
+fifty percent of the work was \emph{always} informational. (Which intrudes a touch of the
+miraculous, for when, how and with what
+blinding speed, did humans become the way
+they are?)
+
+The very act of selection, grading and
+valuation, in order to constitute part of the
+latest national rememberance-treasury of
+our enterprise, to make it fit to be good will,
+it must now be said that these events are
+convertible into these numbers, these increments. For it is part of the equity, the capitalization placed retroactively into the start
+up of the enterprise; a set of past events
+converted into numbered, stored and convertable values. After all, even eventless,
+invested capital must have some history. In
+any pool of money, there lurks an implicit
+collage of time series.
+
+Now if cliometrics is to have any usefulness, not only must religious history and
+mythology be quantified and arranged into
+an accretive time series, but it must be valued. Once quantified they may be translated
+into other metrical disciplines through a
+complex series of conversions shuttling
+back and forth in time. (Although, before
+this can happen, a rewriting and re-evaluation of the meaning oftime itself is required.)
+