I just read the following quote and thought about how it still rings true today and how fitting it would have been for my post, Thinking about history.
"The crisis we are experiencing today is not just a European crisis, nor a crisis of morals, economics, ideologies, politics or religion." -- Jean Gebser, 1949
From, Gebser, Jean. The Ever-Present Origin, translation by Noel Barstad and Algis Mickunas. (p xxvii)