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Repetition creates a fear of an eternal situ-ation but at the same time it provides us with security and comfort. This paradox can be expressed through the boredom that our first world society has allowed us to develop. Our way of life has progressed so much into an idealized utopia that we are no longer responsible for our most basic needs. Our governments, social services, and guarantied sustenance have made us weak and vulnerable not only in that we cannot provide ourselves but also in that we have less and less importance as individuals. The generations before us fought for these ideals so much that we might have even lost touch with what makes us truly unique. Our purpose as people today, is to find happiness and if anyone challenges this, we are quick to quiet them. Humans are not meant to be absolute hedonists but rather entities that succeed from struggle, trail and error. What make each of us individually unique are the small oddities, differences, and flaws. Repetition, also acts as an agent for recognition and stability, but is this just another state in which the progression has gone to far, a false unique identity?

Repetition is too much of revelation into our unrealistic hopes for utopia, so we ponder the notion of its end; this is evi-dent in all social behavior. Most trends in fashion, design, art, speech, and even pedagogy don’t last very long. We are so afraid of falling behind in an endless conundrum that hinders progress but at the same we shun those who are enslaved by trends, fashion victims. We hate to see people wearing the same styles so we dif-ferentiate ourselves with small nuances that tend to be superficial or dishon-est. We follow trends to find comfort. As hunter gathers, we are also social beings and generally group ourselves with oth-ers who are the same on a fake or truthful level. We are then able to provide safety for our loved ones as a notion of survival. When one looks at the phenomenon of the bourgeoisie, we see a group of people who only frequent each other and who are very conventional. The bourgeoisie

has been mocked trough out history for their lack of social trendiness in that they never follows a radical change at the same rate the everyone else follows, they do catch up eventually. This appears to be an alteration of the truth. If we compare the bourgeoisie with radical movements that rapidity becomes hackneyed, we see that the later is much more founded. The great-est test of the success of a philosophy or way of living is its lasting effect. But in the bourgeoisie, people become bored, and with the consistency of social and profes-sion engagements rebellion is eminent, ironically this is also a constant trough out history.

Repetition happens to be a two sides coin. We need it to sustain the familiarity of our daily lives. The progress that has put us ahead has also drawn us away for the beauty and romanticism of random-ness. Every now and then the cycle that mimic the very idea of repetition repeats itself; gaining comfort and then becom-ing bored with it. The outcome is a radical movement that ends up acting in favor of a progress that allows for comfort again. As a rare parallel there are instigators of change and whose foundations are strong, they are not satisfied with any small progress but continuously question the purpose of repetition. We cannot for-get that absolute repetition creates such a clean environment that people become bored in many case find no meaning, finally resulting in suicide or remission. Our need to combat adversity results in a greater taste of success.

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AdrianMadlener28|2|2009