by Dennis Kucinich

In Stanley Kubrick‘s classic film, „2001 A Space Odyssey,“ just after the majestic opening of Richard Strauss‘ Also sprach Zarathustra, a soaring sun, splitting the darkness, seemingly heralds the new Genesis, and next a man-ape uses a femur bone to dispatch the leader of another group in order to gain control over a water hole. The simple act of one mammal clubbing another to death is what Friedrich Nietzsche, in his novel „Thus Spake Zarathustra,“ may have countenanced as „the eternal recurrence of the same.“