I agree that “history repeats itself” is a trite phrase. And I don’t believe that it’s like an ouroborus, or even a Moebius strip. Or “Groundhog Day”.
Or is like “Groundhog Day”?
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I think a problem is the choice of metaphors like “time is a flat circle”. If you’re going to use a physical object as a metaphor, use… I dunno, a helix. Then you can move on to the whole “doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes” metaphor, which gets the pontificating back to the concrete issues that do keep coming back up over and over.
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By far the funniest part of the article was this:
Before its most recent closure, an artist who paints tiny pictures on discarded chewing gum has pleaded for his works to be saved after being told most of them will be removed during the works.
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" . . . and no kangaroos!"
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So cool! Very interesting video.
Back in around 1970 I saw one of these at our campus radio station. I can picture it only vaguely, but it looked homemade* – a maybe 4’ x 8’ sheet of metal with more than 2 transducers clamped onto the edges. There may have been some on the faces too. It was horizontal but I don’t recall how it was suspended. I never heard it being used though.
*Well it was an engineering school . . .
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Growing up, going to school, I’d heard of ATP, ADP, phosphorus in DNA and RNA, but I don’t recall any of our science teachers mentioning this angle of it. Nor do I remember it being mentioned in the countless sci-fi stories I read (although I might’ve just missed it).
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A beautiful old building with an interesting history. The cinematography is spectacular. And you can take a drink every time someone says “World Heritage Site.”
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Yes, I am intentionally putting this under “Interesting” rather than “Silly Grins.”
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Here’s a way to waste a few hours:
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I just heard an episode of The Saint radio program from November 5, 1950. Vincent Price is excellent as the title character, but that is beside the point.
The interesting thing is that it contained a humorous reference to Dianetics: An over-serious college girl who had been in psychoanalysis since her childhood says that lately she had decided to take up Dianetics instead. It had only been introduced earlier that summer.
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I love that show! But I must have missed that episode because I would have notice that.
When I was working at an English language used bookstore in a Spanish speaking country, I read a lot of books. There wasn’t a lot of traffic but I made my $1 an hour and the occasional pot of coffee. I picked up Dianetics.
I’d just finished up a degree in philosophy so I was primed for difficult texts and ideas. Dianetics was not difficult, but I still couldn’t finish it. The reason was, it said that if you don’t agree with a statement in the book it’s because you didn’t understand some of the words. So you’re supposed to go look up each of the words until you agree. Apparently, ungrammatical bullshit can’t be called out as such, and it left me thinking that all scientologists are willfully ignorant.
It wasn’t my book, so I couldn’t light it on fire, but I really really wanted to.
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