Milan Kundera: Happiness

[ZACH23ization]

The video resolution is horrible, but his take on the novel & movie of "Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera is pretty good. I enjoyed the novel the 1rst time I read it, then when I saw the movie, it just added that much more chutzpah & charm to it. However, Nietzsche's eternal return theory may be that we all desire happiness, & in that sense that can be the ideal of repetition taken throughout history; but there are many forms of that an individual can take to make one's self happy,

[ZACH23ization]

therefore, history cannot repeat itself in the same form. It merely changes in variations...for ex: we are all comprised of different chemical compositions and DNA, & when 2 people meet, they form a chemistry that no other 2 people could replicate. Hence happiness or meaning can exist without repetition.

[DeenMoriarty]

I thought Nietzsche's whole thing with the eternal return was less that history repeats itself, but more a matter of whether or not meaning can exist without repetition.

[switchsearch]

could it be that the expectation that we will go on, must go on, limits the real eternity . . . the eternity of now? wherein the dog lives here, now . . . holds onto nothing . . content with the bone, the ball, or simply it's owners presence. . . wherein man looks around imagining what he could have, has had , and or, may one day have . . . leaving the moment which can be enjoyed . . . and visiting that which is out of reach . . the past . . the future . . . beyond control . . just a thought

[jibson2]

actually quite good, except bad movie resolution

[jibson2]

this suck

[hirschenpeter]

Happiness is the longing for repetition

[AndyITALY07]

very repetitive

[prodigyviolin]

thanks.