Have you ever heard of the 70-year cycle in history? Here's an excerpt from an essay by Eric A. that introduces the concept:
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2013/09/01/the-rise-of-the-american-fascista-state-n1688694?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Many of you may be familiar with the Foundation series by Issac Asimov. In it, mathematician "Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory. Using the laws of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale; it is error-prone on a small scale."
In practice, we can see that this would be theoretically correct: we study history precisely because human nature is relatively the same and the same events recur with the same predictable responses. If history really were chaos--a muddle of events appearing randomly and being resolved in unpredictable ways--there would be no point in studying it.
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2013/09/01/the-rise-of-the-american-fascista-state-n1688694?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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