"The more things change...

"The more things change the more they stay the same." I've heard and read this phrase a few times this week. Although a truism, it's often used to convey drab moments of revelation and despair. Fortunately, a scarcity of intrinsic personal and social metamorphosis isn't dreadful. While technology has evolved largely unobstructed, humanity's survival struggle, personal and cultural expression, status enforcement, and impulse suppression have remain unchanged for thousands of years. Society will forever remain an amalgamation of competing ideologies, identities, and personal sacrifice, on macro and micro levels. This is our shared "human condition."