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
Three Different Views; but based on the same assumption: the Tyranny of Time.
The Progressive View
The Formulaic View