Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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History: Coming Soon

Here's a look at how history can predict the future.  It's not true that "nobody" ever sees it coming.  Somebody always does. The problem is that the people who can't see the obvious ignore the ones who can.  By obvious, I don't mean that an individual situation looks obvious; it's often obscure.  I mean that the pattern  is obvious, because human history contains many cycles, which makes it very predictable in certain ways.  So when you have studied history and you know the patterns of it, and you start seeing the early moves of a cycle, you know with pretty high accuracy what is going to come next.  If you are a sane person, you will try warning others, and they will either ignore you or punish you.

Welcome to the Cassandra club.  >_<
Tags: history, news, politics
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  • 4 comments
technoshaman

technoshaman

July 27 2016, 02:56:16 UTC 4 years ago

There's a song about that...

If you have Spotify you can find a recording as well.

It fades out as Cassandra loses her sound man to a bomb, with explosions all around, and a single string plucked, as if it were a telegraph key, rises from the noise: dah-dit-dit-dit, dah-dit-dit-dit, dah-di-dah-dit... over, and over, and over, and then fades too....

ysabetwordsmith

O_O

ysabetwordsmith

July 27 2016, 09:04:46 UTC 4 years ago

That's depressing.
technoshaman

Re: O_O

technoshaman

July 28 2016, 00:26:32 UTC 4 years ago

Most of the album is; it's about what happens when the oligarchs get control and then things fall apart...

At the very end, though, there's "Blackthorn Winter", when hope begins to reappear... just a hint of it, enough to stay alive until spring actually comes again.

conuly

conuly

July 28 2016, 09:37:46 UTC 4 years ago

Back a while ago, I came across an expression I'd never heard before: "Coming events cast long shadows before".

All this year, that's been echoing in the back of my mind.