Or, what few, vapid ideas Mr. Farlops could think of to spur discussion in his bulletin board. History is not a fractal and history is not a cycle. History is an infinite landscape that always changes, and while looking self-similar in parts, never repeats. Progress doesn't lead to some final resolution.
Progress replaces old problems with new ones.
The world continues to shrink. There is an idea, currently fashionable in some quarters, that the world should balkanize into tiny little microstates and bioregions. I thought this was an idea that failed and died with the Middle Ages. We must move on to grander things. I think I'll see a global government within my lifetime.