Rus/arraya: As I said before, history is immutable. As much as I would love to see things evolve, history tells a far different story.

The best book of history I ever read was Thucydides’ “A History of the Peloponnesian War”. This concise little volume contains an unchanging story, for nearly all of the written history that followed was the same tale, only with different actors in different places.

Looking at Athens and Sparta, at the height of their respective power and then watching as they engage in an utter fruitless, sanguinary war of thirty years that bankrupts Athens and opens the door to the autocracy and madness of Alexander the Great is heartbreaking. The story never changes, though. In the 2,500 years that have followed, the story never changes.

“Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely”, Lord Acton.

“History is written by the victor”, Napoleon Bonaparte.

“Treason is simply a matter of dates”, Talleyrand.

“Good guy? Bad guy? I’m the guy with the gun”, Bruce Campbell in “Army of Darkness”.