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We've Seen It All Before: Don't Panic and Read the Cycle

"I, I'm a one way motorway I'm the one that drives away Then follows you back home I, I'm a street light shining I'm a wild light blinding bright Burning off and on It's times like these you learn to live again It's times like these you give and give again It's times like these you learn to love again It's times like these time and time again" --Times Like These, by Foo Fighters These are tough times. Inflation is turning common goods to luxuries and outpacing wage growth. Gas prices are higher than ever while faith in elected officials has gone the opposite direction. A proxy war is in progress between Russia and the U.S. while an energy crisis threatens to make this year's winter colder for so many people. Wait...is it 2022 or 1982?  Yes, we've seen it all before. Between the industrial burnout and stagflation and the shadow war that put U.S.-backed rebels up against the Russians in the hills of Afghanistan, it seems like a time machi