Purim...

So, Purim has just ended.  I have eaten way too much junk food, been plastered with too many stickers and had, probably a bit more alcohol than I should have given that I have school tomorrow.  O well... such is the holiday.

For those who do not know what Purim is, you can either Google it (or try a Bible specifically the book of Esther) or just know that the story comes down to "They tried to annihilate us, a woman outsmarted the king and his head of state, plot was uncovered and didn't work... let's eat and get drunk!".  This all happened in Persia about 2500 years ago... and for those who don't believe this specific story happened, one can find a pretty good recollection of it in the Persian records of the era.

Anyways, Friday evening, there was a debate on CBC's Ideas.  It was a debate on whether or not the world can tolerate a nuclear Iran.  For those who don't know their geography... the old Persian empire was based in a city called Shushan which, by archaeological records is not far from modern day Tehran. Now, this could all be coincidence, that it was this week that they had the show about the threat in Iran or that most Rabbis see the modern leader of Iran as the modern Haman (evil guy in the Purim story).  At the same time, politics, being what it is, says little is actually coincidence.

Either way, my point tonight... should it be coherent, it is in my head... is that the world tends to repeat itself. I wonder if it is because of the fact that we do not learn from the past or if it because we just don't want to deal with problems before they become too big to manage.