Behavioral Merry go round

Wiser heads than yours truly have acknowledged that life goes around in circles. You might have seen "History repeats itself" or some such similar sentiment expounded from pulpits of varying degrees of reconditeness. What it all comes down to is that there are only certain sequences that occur in life. So if you hang around long enough, the same sequence is bound to show up again.

In this entry, I am more interested in the repetition of ideas and way of life rather than a repetition of events itself. Time and again, many of us watched as some ideas materialize, get out of fashion and are again resurrected at a later point in time. Very reminiscent of Hegel's thesis-antithesis-synthesis postulate. A thesis comes along gets outdated and then is synthesized at a later point in time with better and deeper understanding. If an idea is good in its essence, it would surface back again even if it got temporarily dis-credited in the interim. But when it does resurface, it would be much better understood the second (or maybe the third) time around.

Recently, this recurrence theme struck me in a totally unrelated context. I was watching one of those science fiction movies in which the heroine is skimpily clad in synthetic apparel that can barely contain her abundant features. It looked very close to another movie that I watched elsewhere with its main theme featuring tribals in the pacific islands. What was interesting is that the heroine in the tribal movie reminded me of the one in the sci-fi movie both in mannerisms and dressing. Both were amazons, clad in bikinis, warrior like and laughed like hyenas. So I thought if the same woman were to act in both the movies, all she has to do is to swap one skimpy bikini with another one.

Looks like we haven't changed much with the passage of time!! Or maybe we just started with the thesis that clothes are only required to cover your most "vulnerable" parts and then wandered off into an anti-thesic tangent(if that is the word I want) experimenting with different varieties of apparels. Finally, we synthesized our understanding of dressing and realized again that a minimalist apparel is the way to go. That is why our vision of the women in the future is very close to "primitive" tribal women.

Interesting huh?