It’s fascinating watching, in meatspace and on the internet, in terms of personal life and political ideology, the completely different idioms but fundamentally similar functions by which people respond to the same stimulus — the experience of having gone from a period of economic expansion to one of contraction. My understanding of history has always been cyclic and more so as I learn and experience more, and living through the 90s-10s progression definitely gives me a better feel for, say, 10s-30s, or 50s-70s. Like they say, those who study history are doomed to watch it repeat.