PLAGUE 3: THE TYRANNY OF TIME

OR BELIEVING THAT

WE ARE CONTROLLED BY A MACHINE CALLED HISTORY


That mystical 'this time' which is always going to be so different.

(CS Lewis: English Literature in the Sixteenth Century. 1954.)

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

('The more it changes, the more it's the same thing'. Alphonse Karr: Les Guêpes. January 1849)

There are two kinds of fools. One says, 'This is old, therefore it is good'; the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better '.

(Dean Inge: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean. Dean Inge 1931)




 


The Depressive View The Progressive View

The Depressive View

Three Different Views; but based on the same assumption: the Tyranny of Time.

What unites these three views . . .

The Progressive View

The Formulaic View