When the past isn’t past

Alan Jacobs:

If you step back from the endless flow of social media and the internet more generally, and sit down with a book from the past that appears to have absolutely nothing to do with the affairs of the moment, something curious and rather wonderful can happen. Unexpectedly and randomly — stochastically — you begin to perceive resonances with your own moment, with the concerns that you may have turned to the past in order to escape.

See also: synchronicity.

2 responses to “When the past isn’t past”

  1. […] trying to actually kill connections to his past but still can’t fully shake them. (After all, the past isn’t past.) As James Whitbrook […]

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