![]() ![]() This long lane backwards, it continueth for an eternity. They are standing at a gate above which is written ‘this moment’, and from this gate, two lanes are moving in opposite directions: “Two roads come together here these hath no one yet gone to the end of. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra the prophet Zarathustra is discussing the idea of the eternal recurrence with a dwarf. What is the eternal recurrence, and how can it be motivating? The Eternal Recurrence I believe that the idea of the eternal occurrence can also be interpreted in a more positive way: I believe that it can be an extremely powerful motivating force. Rust Cohle, the character in True Detective, focused mainly on the negative connotations of the eternal recurrence, victims of crimes would, according to him, continue to be a victim until the end of time if such a thing can even exist if time were indeed a circle. ![]() that this idea scared him: “Thus did I speak, and always more softly for I was afraid of mine own thoughts.” (p.155) The eternal recurrence is a rather scary idea as well, Friedrich Nietzsche himself even indicated in his book Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He called it the eternal recurrence or the eternal return. This idea is one of the most important, but also one of the most complicated, ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche. He explains that time does not move forward linearly, but in a circle, and that everything you have ever done, you will do again and again and again. If you have seen the first season of True Detective, then you might remember a scene during which one of the characters, Rust Cohle, is arguing that time is a flat circle. ![]()
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