I mean a lot of people used to believe, that history is moving in a direction of progress, as we had some seventy-six years without a major war in Europe (well, not counting the civil war in former Yugoslavia) - however now it seems, that we aren't any better than we used to be.

And there are all these nukes to worry about, when we almost forgot about them.

It now looks as if history is moving in cycles, that's kind of depressing.