It is always an assault on humanity, and on sensibilities of being a human, when history repeats itself. It just shows how much systems are isolated from reality that human beings are not able to learn from past and move on to a better world. Though technologies have moved at breakneck speed societies are still living in caves. Some want to replicate template of past as if human mind has not evolved in last many centuries while others want to acquire and consume. Very few people are able to comprehend the exciting enormity of the opportunities contemporary world provides. It's simply amazing to be alive. Cyclical history also shows how few nasty crude people are able to control while majority are reduced to as either participant herd or spectator herd in some bigger scheme that they are incapacitated to comprehend. Pity this world.
