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When studying historical cycles becomes compulsive pattern-seeking

I have been reading about cycles of civilizational rise and fall for months and I cannot stop looking for signs of where we are in the pattern and it feels like trying to predict my own death.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind can become addicted to finding patterns in complex systems as a way of creating the illusion of control over uncontrollable processes.

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