42: The Answer to Almost Everything
Does History Repeat Itself?
S1 • E102 Jan 14, 2024 29m
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?