42: The Answer to Almost Everything - Season 1 Episode 102 Does History Repeat Itself?
9.6048 minutes
Wars, pandemics, economic crises...: so many episodes during which we look back and wonder if history isn't repeating itself. But what is the reality? Indeed, certain geographical or psychological patterns favor the occurrence of similar events. But the stories humans tell themselves also contribute to these similarities between events. Not to mention our tendency to sometimes believe that history repeats itself when the differences outweigh the similarities. Can we, however, learn anything from history?