The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The idea that things do not repeat themselves is an idea that some people have. They believe that the world is going to end, and that we will not be able to reverse the disastrous course that humanity has been taking for some time now. They believe that the world has been on a downward spiral for some time now, and that it is only a matter of time until the world actually ends. There are so many problems with this way of thinking.

The idea of repeating itself is not absurd at all. It is based on events happening on a regular basis on a large scale. That is, things happening over and over again happen on a regular basis.

The idea of great progress being a delusion is also absurd. Progress happens every day, from the invention of electricity to the discovery of new medicines and clean energy technologies. The notion that scientific knowledge leads to disaster is ridiculous as well.

Scientists discover new ways to understand things everyday. As scientists explore more about the nature of the universe, they find out how wonderful it is and how much we can learn from it.

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