>something happens that nobody could predict>historians for no apparent reason: it was inevitable all along
>>18283373Because it’s true. So many possibilities but only one true path. The world has to bend to the needs of the future worlds to come. We cannot understand what is negotiable and what is inevitable until all things come to pass. We learn through tears, OP. I’ve shed more than my fair share, and so has mankind.
>>18283373It's inevitable in retrospect. Once you analyze all the factors, you realize that it couln't have happened any other way.
>>18283373The probability of a past event is 1
>>18283373In this case you would want to say "what causes this". In english, when you present a subject, you address it by saying "this"."that" implies the subject is somewhere else, maybe originating in another conversation.
>>18283373examples?
>>18283373for example?
>>18283373The fall of the roman empire was unprecedented and unimaginable to those living at the time, yet it happened. Even in the midst of its collapse people in most of the WRE only realized something had fundamentally changed centuries later and continued to believe they were still living in the Empire because there was so much institutional and cultural continuity with the late roman empire and the early post-roman states.
>>18283373hindsight is 20/20
>>18283373Hindsight is 20/20 my man.
>>18284341>>18284348Collapse of the USSR?
>>18283441enjoy burning :)
>>18284847The concept of that somehow being a heresy to trigger that autist actually made me laugh irl
>>18283373it's easier to see in hindsight