This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.

Haruki Murakami
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In a world where everyone is predicting the future, it is a true testament to humanity that we cannot even predict what will happen tomorrow. We all have our own idea of what is going to happen but none of us truly know. In the past, the most popular belief was that the world would end during war or at the hands of a natural disaster. Very few people thought that human beings would wipe themselves out from within.

Even those who did realize this were not prepared for it. Newspapers were filled with articles about how important it is to be prepared for this time and countless books were written about how we should prepare ourselves for this day. It is truly a testament to human nature that we cannot even accurately predict what will happen in our own lives.

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