There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
—Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
History repeats itself.
Slowly but surely, we all realize this. Whether you find that to be a good or bad thing is entirely up to you.
The American lawyer Clarence Darrow seemingly hated the fact that it does, stating “History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that’s wrong with history.”
The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw found the repetition of history to only showcase man’s inability to learn from experience. And a particular German philosopher found the entire notion altogether comical.
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”—Karl Marx
So if life really is as the novelist Chuck Palahniuk describes it to be—some clutter of underlying patterns upon more and more intricate and complex patterns—then these five fights and their historical comparisons you’re about to read about shouldn’t surprise you.
But seeing as how eerily similar they are—they probably will.
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