Don't call it a comeback...

Tyson boxed (terribly) last weekend. MJ is back in the spotlight. Phil Jackson has been re-hired as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. And Alanis Morisette has re-released her breakthrough album Jagged Little Pill, this time acoustic and re-interpreted.

Philosopher, madman, Frederick Nietzsche believed in the idea of the "eternal return," which was, for him, horrifying. Briefly stated,

For time is infinite, but the things in time, the concrete bodies are finite.... Now, however long a time may pass, according to the eternal laws governing the combinations of this eternal play of repetition, all configurations that have previously existed on this earth must yet meet, attract, repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again.... And thus it will happen one day that a man will be born again, just like me...

Nobody enjoys the same old shit, which is why we are constantly seeking to re-invent ourselves, even while we are (mostly unknowingly) having the same thoughts, same emotions, same experiences over and over again.

When I went to college I remember thinking, "now I can change who I am. Nobody here knows me - I can be whomever I want to be." But then gradually I came to realize that I am who I am and I had way less control than I thought over "who I was" and they way people perceived me.

The eternal return is an interesting idea but I don't believe in it. You can't step in the same river twice. Life flows on, thank whatever higher power you thank.

I'd rather listen to "Off the Wall" a million times that hear one more CNN report about MJ.
Tyson is more like the chicken-brand that shares his name than the fighter he once was.
Are there no other good coaches left in the NBA?
How many ways can you re-intepret, "Did she go down on you in a theatre?"