Will the Euro become the next "dominating" currency in the global market?

[Loki]

How is it a meaningless statement? Anyone who's even looked at history knows it's a cycle. Let's look at the rise and fall of empires...oh wait what? is the East is gaining momentum again? or is the Western world just heading towards another Dark Age era?

Anyone who thinks history is that simple should have a closer look at history. To say that empires rise and fall is a meaningless statement - anything that rise must fall at some point. Saying that the East is rising makes no substantive sense, and predicting a Dark Age for the West even less so.

[Young Mage]

Ever heard of "hyperbole" and "synopsis"?

[Loki]

How about "relevance"? The point is that history isn't some magical process that repeats itself. It consists of causes and effects that are present in various doses at different time periods and in different places. If something repeats itself, it's because the causes are aligned in a similar manner, not because an x amount of time has placed.

[LittleFuzzy]

Ever heard of "hyperbole" and "synopsis"?

We've all heard of "blue", "donkey", and "photosynthesis" too. All of which have about as much meaning, in context, as the quoted comment.

[CitizenCain]

The dangers of believing that time is cyclical...