The past repeats
If walking Adelaide today highlights how “post-Covid” Adelaide has similar aspects to that the 1990s, then a considerable amount of baggage from the past seems to gave been deeply and often subconsciously internalised” within the people themselves. Aspects of the past live on in us and there is a sense of stasis rather than development.
P. Dews, Aussie, Coromandel Place, Adelaide CBD.
For instance, this historical repetition of a kind of intrinsic racism within the people keeps them and their society locked in a world of stasis. This recurring themes of stasis and regression has thus far, shaped, if not governed, the Australian political experience of modernity.
It is Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence —- instead of a beginning and an end there is a repetition of the very same white (nationalist) racism over and over again. The repetition gives rise to the stasis.
