Introduction

Auguste Comte, born amidst the political turbulence following the French Revolution, proposed a radical realignment of human understanding. He believed that society, like the natural world, was governed by discoverable laws. His positivist philosophy positioned science—not just as a method, but as a civilizational compass capable of replacing theology and metaphysics. In Comte’s schema, the human species was maturing like a child: from imagination, through abstraction, to finally embracing evidence and reason. His proposed “Religion of Humanity” was a secular blueprint for social harmony, with sociologists and scientists as priestly stewards of collective morality.

Fracturism was born in the rubble of such visions. It is not a philosophy of order, but of entropy. Where Comte saw in history a progressive staircase leading toward rational enlightenment, Fracturism sees an ouroboros—a serpentdevouring its own tail in cycles of growth, overreach, and collapse. It arises in an era not of foundational construction but systemic failure—climatebcollapse, institutional decay, algorithmic control. If Comte represents modernity’s dream of control through knowledge, Fracturism is the lucid refusalto mistake knowledge for immunity. Both confront the vacuum left by religion, but only one dares admit the vacuum cannot be filled—only navigated.