Events which at the time seem small and unconnected often combine to lead to major cataclysms.
Back in July I wrote a piece entitled “History tells us what may happen next with Brexit and Trump” exploring historical patterns, or at least what we can learn from history.
The main crux of the argument is that events that at the time seem small and unconnected often combine to lead to major cataclysms that historians, with the benefit of hindsight, trace back to these interconnected, smaller events.
I suggested that when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed, very few people worried this would lead …read more
Source: New Statesman
