Endless variation

History eventually gets dramatically boring, an endless cycle of repeated and predictable actions. One way this might work, one engine that drives it, is in Norman O. Brown's remarkable LOVE'S BODY. "There is only poetry," Brown concludes. You can save yourself but no one else, and you have to "drop out" to do that. Meditation trumps politics.

I consider retirement "a new life" - downsizing and dropping out, and I can't wait to begin.