So...I have noticed that I have been doing a lot of deep thinking. And then I post it on my blog. I am sorry if I am boring you all. I just like people to know what I think. Maybe other people would read my blog if it wasn't so "Wallstreet". But, who cares. Read my blog anyway. I'm doing good, by the way. I'm happy.
During the Superbowl this year, I saw an interesting commercial. It was an advertisement from Pepsi. It showcased a split-screen on which we saw two sides of history. There were clips of teenagers at a beach-party, dancing and having fun. On the other side, we saw a clip from the movie, Step-Up 2. What I found interesting is the fact that society really hasn’t changed. There were clips from the Blue Brothers, and also School of Rock which showed the similarities between Jack Black’s character and the other guy’s. This Pepsi commercial did this for about one minute.
The basic theme and gist of the commercial was to say that history repeats itself, but Pepsi will never change. Okay. Big deal. But what struck me as a truth is that history repeats itself. This idea was further confirmed the other day when I was watching the History Channel.
I was watching the program, Cities of the Underworld, and the documentarian went to the city of Ephesus in Turkey. This was once a grand city of the Roman Empire. The city was carefully laid out and planned. In the center of the city were high rise apartments, penthouses, theatres, luxury leisure activities and even security personnel. A theatre on the outskirts of the main city could seat over 35,000 people. They would gather there to see concerts and plays. This city thrived and grew over 2,500 years ago.
Now the question is: Has anything changed? No. Not really. Human nature doesn’t change. This is how history repeats itself. Humans will always be humans and we will be constantly making the same mistakes over and over again. Civilizations will be destroyed and new ones will be reborn. We have to realize that this “new age” that we live in is still a newborn compared to previous times. The United States and the industrial revolution have only been around for about 200 years. Yes, technology has improved, but humans are still the same.
People thought in the past that the Savior would come again in their lifetime. People still think that now. People had mindless and promiscuous sex in the past; people still do that now. There was crime then, there is crime now. There were illegal drugs then, there are illegal drugs now. People were born and people died, just as they do now. History repeats itself, but we manage to remain the same.
In consideration to different types of classes, George Orwell, in his infamous novel, 1984, gives a haunting illustration of the specification of classes and how they have always existed:
“The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim—for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives—is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again” (Orwell 201).
Classifications in society have always existed. History, like mentioned before, repeats itself because human nature doesn’t change. We will always be the same people we were 5 years ago. We will be the same people we were 200 years ago; even 1,000 years ago.
In human nature, time does not exist; it is infinite.
1 comment:
wow.. deep thoughts. I would add that human kind have always had a yearning to improve, to learn, to explore. This yearning drives us to try to create new answers to old problems. But, as you point out, the problems, and the answers have been the same througout history. God is the answer, and wickedness never was happiness. History repeats itself in cycles... being one reason people feel lost. We have to do our best to pick the best from history and emulate it. Dictatorships are overthrown, Democracies crumble due to majority cruelty, Communist states starve. That's why our founding fathers chose a Republic where leaders are chosen by vote BUT are ruled by law. So far its worked out better than any other government and is comparable to the Roman Senatorial era. That is why so many successful nations of today have adopted elected government ruled by written constitutions and laws. We must keep the law in tact to limit the power of the government and its tendency to remove individual freedoms and oppress minorities.
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