We’ve been here before. Many times before. What’s different this time?
I love to study history. One of my favorite quotes is one usually attributed to Mark Twain.
“History doesn’t repeat. But it rhymes.”
What does that mean? It means that people do things for the same reasons that they always did. That’s what history is … people doing things. Since the people are the same, the history is almost the same, but with a twist. The thing that changes is not the people. It’s the circumstances they find themselves in.
Athens fighting Sparta in ancient Greece in 400 BC is a lot the same as the Union fighting the Confederacy over 2000 years later. The issue: Who is top dog and makes the rules. That’s always the issue. When Cromwell fought Parliament in the English Civil War, that was the issue. If things keep on the way they have been, we might see battles between many of the same old Civil War opponents in a new Civil War. Nikki Haley (past governor of the first state to secede from the Union in 1860) has publicly stated that Texas has every right to secede from the Union … again. Some progressives hope Nikki wins just so we can get rid of Texas.
The difference this time is that the circumstances have hit the hockey stick curve. Technology has driven Homo sapiens for the entire history of our civilization. When Gog hit Mog in the cave with a big rock and killed him, he had to do it personally and it usually took time and effort. Then they invented bows and arrows. Much more efficient and you could kill at a distance! Gunpowder was the next huge jump. You could kill lots of people all at once without even being close to them. Today, for the first time in Homo sapiens’ history, we actually have the ability to end it all for everybody. In multiple ways too!
It has been reported that wolves living around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster are starting to develop a genetic ability to overcome some of the effects of radiation. Maybe in the distant future, a species descended from wolves will develop their own technology and kill everything again.
Kinesava the Trickster 
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