Marco Arment on the cycle of life (My title, not his)

When I watch documentaries about the Vietnam War era in the United States I’m filled with both wonder and hopelessness: wonder at the sheer scale of the protests, civic disobedience, and government criminality of the time, but hopelessness that we still have all of the same problems today, systemically unable to prevent repeating the same mistakes in every generation.

Sounds pretty similar to what King Solomon said:

What was will be again, what happened will happen again. There’s nothing new on this earth. Year after year it’s the same old thing.