Re: Doomed To Repeat It
Perhaps it’s the same reason commuters can’t ignore tragedy on the freeway mixed with the human desire to improve on the things in our lives while diligently keeping our fingers in our ears to all rational experiential suggestions from those ahead of us on life’s trail.
Yet it is the case that we have a bizarrely morbid desire to gaze on others mistakes while simultaneously plunging ourselves into the same treachery they just met, but humans, it appears, are doomed to repeat… Just about everything.
A surprisingly engaging article on Medium drew me in discussing the reasons why engineers reinvent the same software over and over again: email, markup languages, and todo lists.
The developer raises up the great sword of technology and brings it down upon the plinth of culture — and the sword shatters. But never mind; we can go back to the forge to make a bigger, better sword for retina displays. And as we craft it we whisper that eternal prayer for the comfort of list-makers: This time will be different.
