As a species heavily dependent on cognition, we have this tendency to - after having our asses handed to us - cock our heads and ask the question, "perhaps I could do it differently next time" and then proceed to build upon the same old predicaments in a new and creative manner.
This can work perfectly fine in a limited way, on an individual basis say; it is how we learn after all. But stuck within a greater historical pattern and it becomes: perhaps let's try this different technocratic fix for technocratic problems, or perhaps if I'm king and have the power I can do it better, or I alone have the exclusive answer to move forward so just go ahead and step through this doorway, and then yes, the same old historical timebomb is reproduced bigger and better, and it unleashes a slowly churning and grinding destruction throughout history as it decays.
What has happened to the dialectic thinkers? It only seems there are a limited number. On a collective scale our thought has a relentlessly linear quality to it. What's next? What's the next thing? And so on.
