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Does the History Repeat Itself?
And if so, then why?
Hey, do you remember World War II? What a shit it was? And how relieved we were after it ended? How happy we were just to be alive, how content with small things, and how hopeful for the future!
“We must do everything we can to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” we said and established the United Nations, signed Human Rights Declaration to put our differences behind and lived peacefully ever after!? Remember that?
Of course not!
If you’re reading this in late 2021 you were born well after the WWII, and if you’re by some chance old enough to remember it, you are probably already locked into a retirement home where you are being patronised as a small hapless child so that the rest of us are safe from your cynicism.
Here’s a wild idea: every 80 to 100 years society falls into a deep crisis. It could be famine, war, economic meltdown or a pandemic. Although it seems that things like drought, viruses or even a conflict came from the outside, these things can largely be prevented. But they weren’t. And that is the point.
People who survive such a crisis establish mechanisms and values to prevent such an event from ever repeating.
