A whole year at a glance

Trouw newspaper is annoyed at the many year-end retrospectives currently being shown on television. "You can put your television in the closet for eleven months and get it out in mid-December. And at a glance you will see the whole year. ... It's perfectly understandable that people automatically reach for the zapper after a long day on the job. But it's regrettable that television programmers spend their time putting together collections of retrospectives instead of thinking up something new. ... Is this once more tied up with the search for identity? Or with our need to create an overview of our life in the truest sense of the word? By looking back at the past we can disregard the precarious world we find ourselves in today. That may be. But when you see everything all over again it only becomes all the more real."

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