>There's an old saying out there that history is merely a set of cycles. I suppose we'll see if that is true in the upcoming years. "Hegel remarks somewhere th

>There's an old saying out there that history is merely a set of cycles. I suppose we'll see if that is true in the upcoming years. "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."