Sunday, May 18, 2025
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This is nothing to do with the contents of this video or any other video that you post and which I rareky, if ever, watch but just something I am curious about.
ReplyDeleteDont you ever get tired of all the 'It's over', 'He's done', 'He's finished' titkes, particularly since I'm struggling to remember an actual occasion when someone was over, done, or finished.
Yeah, it's all clickbait. But these videos usually contain a nugget or two of substance. So it's a value judgment: are the nuggets worth it? If I say no, I could be siding with the "cyclical history" folks who dismiss everything as "same shit, different day." These folks aren't far different from the moral-relativism or moral-equivalence crowd: the politicians are all dirty bastards, and nothing's ever gonna change. There is no progress. A pox on both their houses! It doesn't really matter who's in power because it doesn't affect my life. It's the 새옹지마 shrug of the old farmer who loses a horse, but who understands life to be a constant push-pull that always averages out to an equilibrium. Nobody in politics is ever really "destroyed" or "owned" or "made to regret" anything.
ReplyDeleteWhich is fine, and truth be told, I often feel that way myself. It's a legitimate
way to view the world. But the other cosmic point of view is that everything looks like a cycle until your family gets killed in a war, or your country collapses due to poor economic management or cultural rot. Things suddenly don't feel so cyclical then, and history reveals itself not to be a cycle so much as a spiral.
A spiral has traits in common with a cycle/circle. You do repeatedly end up at the same points on the face of a clock. But a spiral never repeats exactly, and therein lies the rub. So I think it's in the spirit of "spiralism" that I never seem to tire of the clickbait. There is a such thing as progress; there are differences in history and politics; it's not all just equivalence and relativism.
And I think the commenters who come to rebut my posts must feel similarly because, if they really saw my efforts as vain, saw the world as vain and everything as relative or repetitive, they wouldn't bother to comment. What would be the point? So why, I wonder, do they care enough to comment? Just to punctuate their own boredom?