History Sure Does Rhyme
I had a talk with my therapist the other day about the Dems sweeping the US midterms, turning even red-Texas blue. I made a comment to him that I really hope the country doesn't fall into this honeymoon phase like we did with Obama-era politics, with all the optimism, but missing the realism.
"Funny you mention that, I was on youtube and was looking at the comments and a lot of people were expressing that it was that feeling of seeing Obama get elected. You kinda nailed that observation."
I couldn't help but let out an exhausted "yeah...". Don't get me wrong, I'd take Obama-era optimism over whatever the fuck is wrong with us now. But golly-gee have we learned nothing? We can't just hope our way out of fascism and the neoliberal death spiral this country is on. We gotta actually do stuff.
It's the old saying that "those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it", but in reality history rarely repeats itself, but it certainly rhymes. Even things like fashion sense seems to kinda rhyme in it's implementation.
The other day I was walking to lunch, and saw this suit walking with his airpods in. I couldn't help but be reminded of those execs that walked around with one of those bluetooth headsets in their ear. Y'know what I'm talking about right? Maybe this is where my age is showing, hold on...
One of these fucking things. The douchey business manager with the bluetooth ear piece became the douchey business manager with an airpod.
Fashion trends tend to also rhyme a bit, with fashion styles repeating every 30 years or so. The 70s had a lot of influence in the 2000s, the 80s in the 2010s. The 90s are in right now especially with people born in the late 2000s. Can't wait for 2030 when 2000s fashion is "in"... god help us. No more Canadian tuxedos a la Justin and Britney.
I had also noticed the sort of rhyming when it comes to things being "woke". What we call "woke" now is just the "SJWs" of the 2010s which was the "Politically Correct" of yesteryears. People were always bitching about people being offended about them being assholes for ever since we stopped putting lead in paint.
The current administration is probably corrupt as hell, but it's an echo of the Nixon and Reagan administrations. And we thought it couldn't get any worse.
The rise of President Little D, for a lot of the parallels people make of him to Hitler, is more like Mussolini. Need an example? Mussolini once had an assassination attempt where a bullet grazed his nose. He then processed to use the bandage as a political prop to make himself look like a strongman. Sound familiar?
Really the only thing I'm getting at here is that history really tends to parallel itself. While not full-on repeating itself, there's a lot of things that make it sure seem to rhyme. So, you know, be on the lookout for that.
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