They say that history repeats itself. But I don’t think that’s really true. Take the War of 1812 for instance. I don’t think we are ever going to have one of those again. Or like when Alexander the Great conquered Persia back in 331 B.C., I can assure you that he will never do that again. On account of him being dead and all.
Seriously, the more I consider it, the more convinced I am that “history repeats itself” is merely propaganda forwarded by historians to drum up business for themselves!
What the world needs right now – more than anything else as far as I can surmise – is a supercontinent. You know, like Pangea, or Pannotia, or Rodinia of past eras. Those were classics!
I mean, don’t get me wrong, the continents that we have today are okay – good but not great.
But they’re not nearly as super as a supercontinent.
The term Achilles’ heel has an apostrophe, because it’s a reference to the heel that belonged to the ancient Greek hero Achilles. Therefore, by the transitive properties of apostrophes, when we talk about something being our Achilles’ heel, that something does not actually belong to us. It belongs to Achilles. Even though that guy has been dead for like, forever.
And given that Achilles allowed his own Achilles’ heel to be shot by an arrow, I really don’t think that we should be trusting this Achilles guy with all of our Achilles’ heels!
Seriously, we’re really vulnerable here – this is an area of weakness that someone may exploit.
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