The more things change.....

[LMcD]

An extract from Maggie Joy Blunt's diary entry dated Saturday 5th of May 1945:
'One of the dangers I think of having the news brought to one so quickly when history is being as dramatic as it is at present is that it makes one want and expect life to move with the speed of a film towards some happy conclusion.'

[Serial_Apologist]

Or delve more deeply into likely underlying causes when history is not being as dramatic as it is at present, so that one is less likely to be caught off balance when it is?