Column | Everything comes back. Maxim February also also

Returning is considered differently. The Bible story of the lost son is quite positive about it. In the Gospel of Lucas, the father is especially happy when his son is back on the sidewalk with hanging legs; In the poem ‘Mother’ by Geerten Gossaert it is the mother. « And then, after years,/ lepers a wanderer/ ter Poorte complained:/ Your son turns again …/ she saw him and/ found any tears,/ no more tears for so much joy.« 

But not every comeback makes happy. In horror films it is usually not a success: you think you are getting rid of a creep, push him out of the front door, shifts the key on it – you turn around and, hop, it has come back through the garden doors. And the German journalist Timur Vermes wrote in 2012 under the title Er ist wieder da A novel about the resurrection of Adolf Hitler. He also appears to be dead in the book, he appears alive and well in the Germany of the twenty -first century.

Now the Führer In Vermes’ book not much more than a fool and a grumbler. He is mistaken by modern media for one comedian And gets his own television program because of his success on YouTube. But no matter how faint the book may be, the title is certainly interesting, and ‘er ist wieder da‘It is not for nothing that a fixed sigh has become.

On the phenomenon of it Wieder-Da-Seinfrom any whom or whatever, I try to get a grip now that I suddenly come across it everywhere. Every day I hear people talking about revival of the past, of history, of Ismen and currents. What do you think, do they say at the baker, is this time a return of 1933? Is a revival of fascism in technocracy? Has JD Vance really sang the praise from Operation Paperclip?

Someone has read at Timothy Snyder that we can learn from history.

History may not be literally repeating itself, say the comments that I do on Nasla, but indeed there are parallels. Someone knows that Mark Twain said this. « History Doessn’t Repeat Itelf, But It Often Rhymes.  » Another comes with a quote from Max Beerbohm that has been around on the internet for a while. Max Beerbohm saidit is not so much history as the historiography. « History does not repeat itself. The Historians Repeat One Another. « 

The history of history has become a large language model, a text generator, in which thoughts are constantly pumped around and return as parallel. Users throw historical texts in the machine and new, similar texts come out. There is nothing new under the sun, preacher says. « The rivers return to the place where they sprung, and start flowing again. Everything is tiring, so much that there are no words for it. »

Everything echoed, everyone talks to each other, and that is why it is important to carefully select the words you want to throw in the blender. If you want to change the course of history, it is better not to choose anywood old words that lead to disgusting new words. As Techbedrijf Meta writes in the terms of use: do not share information that you do not want to be used and remembered by language models.

History continues to repeat itself infinitely, says the philosopher Nietzsche. Start from the eternal return of the equal and make sure that your life is worth that infinite repetition. Suppose this moment on which you read this is repeated and repeated and repeated for eternity, are you satisfied with the moment? Are you comfortable? Are you having fun? Or do you have something better to do than to read here endlessly about repeating texts about repetition? And what kind of better do you have to do? What would you like to relive forever?

We can of course continue to proclaim from the pulpit what is wrong, what we have lost, that we live all our lives wrong, but that is not nice to say again and again. And negativity attention and airplay Giving, will not be fun for long.

Mo gawdat, former Chief Business Officer from Google has in his book Creepy Explained that our own words and actions are more than ever decisive for history, now that everything we say and do is processed by information systems. Make sure your words determine the future in a positive direction. « Remember, » Gawdat writes, « that love is allers. »

The great philosophers say, in short, all the same and so it will be true. And that is why I take myself neatly for the eternal return of my presence here to be worth in the future.

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