Good illustration of the fallacy of progress. Things that happened in the past looking inevitable to us, because they happened. We tend to construct narratives that makes the arc of history look inevitable, like a progression that had to happen.

That’s not really how the world works, it’s a symptom of our psychological makeup. We want things to make sense, so we construct progressive narratives that make sense.

But as any trained historian would tell you, viewing history as an inevitable path of progress is almost entirely unhelpful for predicting what happens next.

Because that’s up to us.