Everything New Is Old Again

By Ben Tripp
Created Jan 7 2007 - 10:46am

Humankind has never changed, and it never will.

The essential misapprehension under which individuals labor --generation
after generation-- is that we are on some endless collective journey that
will take our species from weak-chinned, flint-chipping anthropoid misery to
an exalted state wherein our lives will pass with the elegance of a new-age
celebrity wedding in Tahiti. People imagine we're about three-fifths of the
way along this evolutionary trek. They have always imagined this, and they
have always been wrong. Nothing ever changes, and nothing ever will.