Daily #4

Will a "hypertext" world make us more accepting of cyclic history? 


Hypertexts are the things that you can click on to take you somewhere on the page/website.  Hypertexts can show us how things that happen in the past connect us to events today.  Hypertexts are becoming a part of daily lifestyle.  People use hypertexts all the time, and it has become quite a global idea.  Wikipedia has hypertexts on all of their articles so you can see where the information used came from exactly.  Cyclic history shows that history is cycling constantly.  When you click on a hypertext, it takes you to another link that explains what you are talking about.  It cycles through the information, making a pattern that you can follow.  This pattern is a perfect example of cyclic history.  Just as the hypertext cycles through information in a pattern, cyclic history cycles through a pattern of events.

We live in a cyclical world.  Everything has its cycles.  History can be repeated if we do not learn from it.  When a cycle is started, it is hard to break.  A good example of this is the Ice Ages.  Many Ice Ages have occurred in the past.  It was almost in a constant cycle of heating and cooling.  People were effected because they had to move further south to stay out of the cold.  When I went on Wikipedia, there were many hypertexts that I could click on to circle through the web.  Hypertexts definitely help me understand cyclic history, and they help me to better understand the patterns and cycles of the internet.