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The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not even close to old but as I get more experienced I continue to see "what's old is new again" ring tr

The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not even close to old but as I get more experienced I continue to see "what's old is new again" ring true.

shafyy 4y ago
I'm also not old and I observe the same pattern. Somehow, it has a comforting effect on me.
- michaelsbradley 4y ago
  All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already, in the ages before us. There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after. — Ecclesiastes chapter 1, verses 8-11, RSV translation. Written about 2500 years ago, +/- some centuries (experts disagree on date and author). It's maybe a bit comforting and distressing at the same time.
  - biblequote 4y ago
fcoury 4y ago
Indeed. It's like we are always reinventing the wheel on a very cyclic manner. We go round and round to come back to the same abstractions. I had to Google the quote, but it goes like "those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it". I am not sure if there's a way around it or some level or repetition is obligatory for things to move forward. Maybe it's like the saying that you can't really give out advice to someone, because your advice also comes with all your previous baggage. But on the other hand, that's how we learn and transmit our knowledge across generations right? I think there's some sort of true in all those "feelings" but we also can't deny there are also incremental change that persist over time... Hard to say.
- billylo 4y ago
  I think it's like a spring. We feel like going in circle, but we move upwards a bit with every cycle.
  - fcoury 4y ago
    I just love this analogy.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not even close to old but as I get more experienced I continue to see "what's old is new again" ring true.

shafyy 4y ago

I'm also not old and I observe the same pattern. Somehow, it has a comforting effect on me.

michaelsbradley 4y ago
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already, in the ages before us. There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after. — Ecclesiastes chapter 1, verses 8-11, RSV translation. Written about 2500 years ago, +/- some centuries (experts disagree on date and author). It's maybe a bit comforting and distressing at the same time.
- biblequote 4y ago

fcoury 4y ago

Indeed. It's like we are always reinventing the wheel on a very cyclic manner. We go round and round to come back to the same abstractions. I had to Google the quote, but it goes like "those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it". I am not sure if there's a way around it or some level or repetition is obligatory for things to move forward. Maybe it's like the saying that you can't really give out advice to someone, because your advice also comes with all your previous baggage. But on the other hand, that's how we learn and transmit our knowledge across generations right? I think there's some sort of true in all those "feelings" but we also can't deny there are also incremental change that persist over time... Hard to say.

billylo 4y ago
I think it's like a spring. We feel like going in circle, but we move upwards a bit with every cycle.
- fcoury 4y ago
  I just love this analogy.