THANK YOU BILLY JOEL. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE ONE OF MY HEROES! Many of us were in some form of school when this song hit. We had to write papers about it bc it was such a raw look at then modern history. It moved many of us in a profound way bc it was more than just words. It was the images that made us listen to the words and think about what it really meant. MUCH LUV AB AND THE ROCKSTAR. KNOW YOUR HISTORY. ❤ Tara da OG
This came out in 1989 when Billy Joel was 40. The song and video depicts historical political and social events during his life up to that time 1949-1989. It was in response to a 21 year old friend of Sean Lennon 14,who said it was a terrible time to be 21,Joel replied that he remembered being 21 and how he felt being it was during Vietnam,drug problems and civil rights.The friend replied but it was different when you were a kid during the 50’s and everybody knows nothing happened in the 50’s.Joel replied didn’t you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?
This is my reasoning behind never giving in to the lowest common denominator. We must develop high moral standards & stand by them even if we stand alone. Our current political landscape is a snapshot of this dilemma. Do we go with the popular low-brow one or strive for a higher standard? I try to aim high, I don't always achieve my goal, but not from lack of effort.
"Know your history." Thank you! I fear that this song and video goes over a lot of younger people's heads. It is a history lesson in itself as everything Billy Joel lists is in near chronological order by decade from 1949 to 1989. The "idealized" life within the walls of that home is contrasted against the disturbing images that burn in the background.
Nobody paints a music picture like Billy Joel. The Piano Man is a legend bc of it. Billy Joel told us in 1989 that NOTHING is going to get better for the future until we ACKNOWLEDGE, SEEK JUSTICE AND GIVE FORGIVENESS for the injustices of human history. We didn’t start the fire, but we can sure as h*ll do more to start putting it out. ❤Tara da OG
OMG! Another Billy Joel song. Thank you. This is one of my favorite songs of his. I pretty much love all of Billy Joel’s work. Even his classical music is just amazing. This is a song that covers every generation & then some. “No we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it”… such a great line.
I wrote a paper on this in college. Looked up every person/event mentioned and wrote a bit about each one. Just an awesome history lesson in that awesome song. I challenge all those to do the same! Loved your reaction AB!
You needed the lyrics for this one but you definitely picked up what he was putting down 🙂 I often wish he would do an updated version. We're certainly on fire now!
@@krae6273 I have a lot of respect for Fall Out Boy in trying to take on the task of re-creating We Didn’t Start the Fire in 2023. My only critique would be that there were too many pop culture references and not enough historical references that really impacted the world. For example, they have: Pokémon, Twilight, and that Michael Jordan retired is number 23 and came back as number 45. they didn’t mention: the death of Princess Diana, Gulf war, Bin Laden, smartphones, Putin, or Covid. Which were all major global events. It’s a great effort but I think there’s a bit too much fluff in it. ❤️ Tara da OG
GOODNIGHT SIAGNON is a great song with raw genius lyrics as usual! It's About Vietnam War and Everytime Billy sings this he has veterans on stage singing the chorus. ❤
FYI: the guy with the handheld unaliving device being pointed at his head was indeed ended a second after that photo. This was during the Vietnam war. For context, he himself had just unalived several people, including the family of a South Vietnamese officer. His name: Nguyễn Văn Lém.
As someone posted below, he put this message out in 1989. It is the first day of 2025 and we’ve done NOTHING to extinguish it; we’ve only thrown fuel on it and continue to incinerate all hope for humanity and our planet. We’ve got to DO better and BE better! I don’t understand why it’s so hard!!!
I deal with Severe Clinical Depression. Billy Joel wrote a song that has helped me so much. It’s called “You’re Only Human (Second Wind)”. When I have a particularly bad time, lasting 2 or more days, I will listen to that song over and over until I feel better. And it does help me. It helps me to accept myself and to forgive myself for whatever I think I’ve done wrong. I wish I could tell him how much that song means to me. The best lyric ever written “We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes”. Such a powerful line
In middle school we did a history project with this song. Each kid was assigned sections of lyrics and we had to find out why it was important and do a paper about the assigned events
I saw him when he was touring with Elton John. Legends. So sad to hear he’s hanging it up but I guess it’s time to let him just enjoy a slower paced life now.
I bet you didn't notice that family was aging as he was moving through the years. He was popping off everything that was relevant at that time period. Started in the 50s and ended in the 60s. 6:35 "But when we are gone will it still burn on & on & on &on..." 5:01 North & South Korea. The guy with the gun is a N Korean killing a South Korean fighting for his freedom.
I had a jr high social studies teacher who used to play this (on a boombox) for us at least once a week back in the early ‘90s. I don’t think most of us really grasped the real history and horrors of it at that age though. As I got older it clicked, and I can appreciate that he was trying to teach us about the world beyond our upper middle class bubble.
***IT'S STILL ROCK N ROLL TO ME*** and ***ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG*** and ***ALWAYS A WOMAN TOME*** and ***YOU MAY BE RIGHT*** and ***MY LIFE*** and ***HONESTY*** are all must hear hits that came way before this comeback song in the mid 80s.
I was a pretty young child when this song came out and I was that kind of nerdy kid that basically had my own wing at the library with how much time I spent there. I remember listening to this song on a cassette tape that I’d made from the radio and playing it over and over and over again to make a list of all the things that were being listed off. I took the list to the library and found as many of them in the encyclopedia as I could. I think that’s probably when a baby activist was born in a town where there were zero examples of that. ❤
Billy Joel is very gifted; he powerfully delivers the message that those who do not know our history and learn from our previous mistakes are doomed to repeat them. And sadly, repeating the same mistakes is what people tend to do.
Thank you for reacting to this. I'm in my 40s and I had never seen the video before. This song is a stark reminder that the human race keeps repeating the same issues. ( for example Palestine, Afghanistan, birth control)
Thank you for the reaction. Billy is a master. You want a powerful song of his, listen to Goodnight Saigon. I get chills. My brother served and only told me one story. He said the rest were too horrifying and the one he told me was pretty horrifying too.
That image u saw is what this song is all about…we didn’t start the fire, we didn’t light it but we tried to fight it…we are being blamed for things we had no part in
The photo of the vietnamese general shooting a vietcong was a pulizer prize winner. It was taken by my husbands cousin. It was actually from moving film.
Billy Joel is a huge history buff and wrote this to inform younger people about the headlines throughout his life up until 1989. Knowing your history is important if we don’t want to repeat it. Awareness is everything. The photos are awful, but how else do you get through to some people. Nice reaction.
This is my absolute favorite Billy Joel song. When my kids were younger, we spent a homeschool year learning about everything in the song. An updated version that was more history focused than the one by FoB would be amazing. I liked theirs but I wasn’t blown away and it didn’t inspire a year’s worth of curriculum.
Billy Joel is one of my all time favorites. He can write a story like no one else. Similar to Meat Loaf. They can take you on a ride through a story. Such talent.
The video starts out the year Billy Joel was born and names off stuff that happened thru the years. You can see the years changing as the video progresses. It goes up to when he released the song.
Heard this a gazillion times and never heard “Children of Thalidomide” or put the housewife taking a pill with the Mothers’ Little Helper epidemic until this watch. So MUCH always.
Great reaction. I just wish there would of been a sequal - maybe call it ; The Fire Continues Buruing on , End Flames , Non-Stop Flames - it could pickup from where We Didn't Start The Fire - ends at and continues the story until today or whenever it could of been told until.
Absolutely know your history, 100! A powerful song, especially in its era, made even more powerful with the images that don't hold back. It does no one any good to gloss over the past and the atrocities that have been committed since the beginning of humankind, to wax nostalgic over good things in history ("it was better in *my* day" nonsense) without acknowledging the horror. Humans are capable of both massive good and atrocious evil. I loved my teen/young adult era, but I refuse to pretend there wasn't rampant inequality and injustice, hatred and violence. Have we gotten better? In some ways, yes. But if we ignore the past or whitewash it, human society will never progress the way it *needs* to, for everyone. Every race, every culture, every country needs to improve. Some more than others, but we *all* need to move forward and do better. ....I'll step off my soapbox now. That song always gets me riled up, still brings a lump to my throat when I hear it. The video only enhances that.
It’s meant as a visualization tool. IE if we don’t do something to better our world, History will repeat itself. Shock and Awe. The photos are awful but he wanted to make sure to put them directly in our sight. To remind us that these things really happened.
Each generation blames the one before with out knowing they them selves had to put out the fire their parents had to deal with. Its a never ending cycle , we see the bad, we try to change it only to be confronted with a new fire to put out....on and on and on it goes. Stop blaming boomers for things, the had to do things we didnt just to survive. Gen X has had to deal with things , Gen z will have to handle what comes up. We all didnt start anything , the world is what it is and it will never change. Love this song, it says so much.
Billy Joel pulled ZERO punches in the video for this song. I had a history teacher in college that used this song to start the "2nd half of the 20th Century" part of the course. Said that we would cover many of the things in the song and we could write short papers on stuff that wasn't covered in class, as extra credit assignments. Truly, one of the coolest teachers and classes. Got the 19 year olds really thinking about the history that their parents had lived through. here is the link to the updated version, by Fall Out Boy ruclips.net/video/5xn_yR7afm0/видео.htmlsi=CzsR0x9IQyTh84WO
Hey Ab, here's a suggestion for a new artist to check out, if interested. "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) - 1972" (by the channel: Polydor 1000) --Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish-singer songwriter who achieved his most significate success during the 1970's. He's most notably remembered by his distinctive percussive-piano playing style and deeply observational and introspective lyrics...in otherwards a wonderful storyteller.
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THANK YOU BILLY JOEL. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE ONE OF MY HEROES! Many of us were in some form of school when this song hit. We had to write papers about it bc it was such a raw look at then modern history. It moved many of us in a profound way bc it was more than just words. It was the images that made us listen to the words and think about what it really meant. MUCH LUV AB AND THE ROCKSTAR. KNOW YOUR HISTORY.
❤ Tara da OG
This came out in 1989 when Billy Joel was 40. The song and video depicts historical political and social events during his life up to that time 1949-1989. It was in response to a 21 year old friend of Sean Lennon 14,who said it was a terrible time to be 21,Joel replied that he remembered being 21 and how he felt being it was during Vietnam,drug problems and civil rights.The friend replied but it was different when you were a kid during the 50’s and everybody knows nothing happened in the 50’s.Joel replied didn’t you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?
This is my reasoning behind never giving in to the lowest common denominator. We must develop high moral standards & stand by them even if we stand alone. Our current political landscape is a snapshot of this dilemma. Do we go with the popular low-brow one or strive for a higher standard? I try to aim high, I don't always achieve my goal, but not from lack of effort.
Now that's a powerful history lesson in a song, Billy Joel is a living legend.
"Know your history." Thank you! I fear that this song and video goes over a lot of younger people's heads. It is a history lesson in itself as everything Billy Joel lists is in near chronological order by decade from 1949 to 1989. The "idealized" life within the walls of that home is contrasted against the disturbing images that burn in the background.
Yes!! This!! "What are we doing??" just as he asked. Disturbing humanity.
He did a history timeline of 1949, when he was born to present at time 1989.❤
There’s so much war footage in this. Damn he tells it like it is.
If there's one thing you can say about Billy Joel, it's that he tells the truth.
Always.
To the best of his ability.
Nobody paints a music picture like Billy Joel. The Piano Man is a legend bc of it. Billy Joel told us in 1989 that NOTHING is going to get better for the future until we ACKNOWLEDGE, SEEK JUSTICE AND GIVE FORGIVENESS for the injustices of human history. We didn’t start the fire, but we can sure as h*ll do more to start putting it out. ❤Tara da OG
Neil Peart ❤
And understand that there’s always room for improvement
@@hookedonreactions7649 💯 agree. ❤️ Tara da OG
OMG! Another Billy Joel song. Thank you. This is one of my favorite songs of his. I pretty much love all of Billy Joel’s work. Even his classical music is just amazing. This is a song that covers every generation & then some. “No we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it”… such a great line.
I wrote a paper on this in college. Looked up every person/event mentioned and wrote a bit about each one. Just an awesome history lesson in that awesome song. I challenge all those to do the same! Loved your reaction AB!
Check out Kid Rock's ***AMERICAN BADASS*** and I'm gonna expect a full report in the comments. :)
I used this teaching high school history years ago. This song and Living Colour’s Cult of Personality were great teaching aids.
Don’t have to. I lived it.
You needed the lyrics for this one but you definitely picked up what he was putting down 🙂 I often wish he would do an updated version. We're certainly on fire now!
Fall out boy has one
@@krae6273 thanks for the info! I’ll be sure to check it out 👍🏻
+1 for the Fall Out Boy version
@@krae6273 I have a lot of respect for Fall Out Boy in trying to take on the task of re-creating We Didn’t Start the Fire in 2023. My only critique would be that there were too many pop culture references and not enough historical references that really impacted the world. For example, they have: Pokémon, Twilight, and that Michael Jordan retired is number 23 and came back as number 45. they didn’t mention: the death of Princess Diana, Gulf war, Bin Laden, smartphones, Putin, or Covid. Which were all major global events. It’s a great effort but I think there’s a bit too much fluff in it. ❤️ Tara da OG
All reactors should have CC on, at the very least.
GOODNIGHT SIAGNON is a great song with raw genius lyrics as usual! It's About Vietnam War and Everytime Billy sings this he has veterans on stage singing the chorus. ❤
FYI: the guy with the handheld unaliving device being pointed at his head was indeed ended a second after that photo. This was during the Vietnam war.
For context, he himself had just unalived several people, including the family of a South Vietnamese officer.
His name: Nguyễn Văn Lém.
As someone posted below, he put this message out in 1989. It is the first day of 2025 and we’ve done NOTHING to extinguish it; we’ve only thrown fuel on it and continue to incinerate all hope for humanity and our planet. We’ve got to DO better and BE better! I don’t understand why it’s so hard!!!
❤❤ me some Billy!!! Great songwriter and storyteller. This is One of my favorites
Historical timeline in song verse and a message to be spread....Everyone has to be responsible for what they do and say in this life.
Harfang’s new track Billions just came out. Perfect for your content.
🌸 there's quite a few images in the background of the song that are very powerful.
I deal with Severe Clinical Depression. Billy Joel wrote a song that has helped me so much. It’s called “You’re Only Human (Second Wind)”. When I have a particularly bad time, lasting 2 or more days, I will listen to that song over and over until I feel better. And it does help me. It helps me to accept myself and to forgive myself for whatever I think I’ve done wrong. I wish I could tell him how much that song means to me. The best lyric ever written “We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes”. Such a powerful line
Billy is Genius! I remember when it first came out. It made me cry because of its Truth.
In middle school we did a history project with this song. Each kid was assigned sections of lyrics and we had to find out why it was important and do a paper about the assigned events
Harfang’s Billions is out! Your reaction would be so cool.
He's getting ready to do a solid out show in Madison square gardens. Good for him.
His last one is my understanding
I saw him when he was touring with Elton John. Legends. So sad to hear he’s hanging it up but I guess it’s time to let him just enjoy a slower paced life now.
I bet you didn't notice that family was aging as he was moving through the years. He was popping off everything that was relevant at that time period. Started in the 50s and ended in the 60s.
6:35 "But when we are gone will it still burn on & on & on &on..."
5:01 North & South Korea. The guy with the gun is a N Korean killing a South Korean fighting for his freedom.
I had a jr high social studies teacher who used to play this (on a boombox) for us at least once a week back in the early ‘90s. I don’t think most of us really grasped the real history and horrors of it at that age though. As I got older it clicked, and I can appreciate that he was trying to teach us about the world beyond our upper middle class bubble.
Goodnight Saigon you'll love.
***IT'S STILL ROCK N ROLL TO ME*** and ***ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG*** and ***ALWAYS A WOMAN TOME*** and ***YOU MAY BE RIGHT*** and ***MY LIFE*** and ***HONESTY*** are all must hear hits that came way before this comeback song in the mid 80s.
I know! On the list. I’m constantly poking poor AB saying this one, now this one, oh this one! Haha. AB is THE BEST
Another great song by Billy Joel!❤❤🔥🔥
You’re going to enjoy this. Try watching a lyric version so you can follow the historical references. look them up if you don’t recognize them.
It's still rock and roll to me is another banger by Billy Joel you need to hear
It's always been burning, since the world's been turning! ❤
Harfang just released Billions. Your reaction would be amazing.
Billy Joel has an amazing range !
I was a pretty young child when this song came out and I was that kind of nerdy kid that basically had my own wing at the library with how much time I spent there. I remember listening to this song on a cassette tape that I’d made from the radio and playing it over and over and over again to make a list of all the things that were being listed off. I took the list to the library and found as many of them in the encyclopedia as I could. I think that’s probably when a baby activist was born in a town where there were zero examples of that. ❤
The latest from Harfang, Billions, is out now. You should react to it.
Billy Joel is very gifted; he powerfully delivers the message that those who do not know our history and learn from our previous mistakes are doomed to repeat them. And sadly, repeating the same mistakes is what people tend to do.
Billy Joel was the best historiographer in song.
Keep that Billy Joel coming AB 😊
LOVE this song!!!! Billy Joel songs -The Stranger -Pressure -Only the Good Die Young -Allentown
"What are we doing??" Exactly right, it's disturbing, to the core of all humanity. It's sad and it's sickening.
Thank you for reacting to this. I'm in my 40s and I had never seen the video before. This song is a stark reminder that the human race keeps repeating the same issues. ( for example Palestine, Afghanistan, birth control)
This one hits different now that im older. 😢❤ Billy Joel, thanks AB! I think ull dig, "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" 😊
Thank you for the reaction. Billy is a master. You want a powerful song of his, listen to Goodnight Saigon. I get chills. My brother served and only told me one story. He said the rest were too horrifying and the one he told me was pretty horrifying too.
Hate to even imagine what he would come up with for the last 20 years.
I wish Billy Joel did a part 2 for this song, 35 years later. A lot has happened since this song came out.
You get it! Great reaction!
Billy Joel is a "Master Story Teller" ❤
Harfang’s Billions is a must-see! Can’t wait to see your reaction.
When you busted out The Carleton 🤣🤣🤣🙌
So right know your history. Great song.😊
We didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it
❤love that you did the Carlton!! Great dance, perfect timing 😂
Great video to watch for a little perspective during tough times.
This is ALL of our History.
That image u saw is what this song is all about…we didn’t start the fire, we didn’t light it but we tried to fight it…we are being blamed for things we had no part in
You should definitely check out Harfang’s Billions. It’s incredible.
The montage ended in the late 80s.He needs to do another start the fire for today
There is another video compilation to this song that shows pictures that correlates to every person or event.
The photo of the vietnamese general shooting a vietcong was a pulizer prize winner. It was taken by my husbands cousin. It was actually from moving film.
The famous photographer was Eddie Adams of Arnold, Pa.
This is one of my favorites songs of all time! Song is so true!!
Billy Joel is a huge history buff and wrote this to inform younger people about the headlines throughout his life up until 1989. Knowing your history is important if we don’t want to repeat it. Awareness is everything. The photos are awful, but how else do you get through to some people. Nice reaction.
I believe most of those images won Pulitzers and were published in Time.
This is my absolute favorite Billy Joel song. When my kids were younger, we spent a homeschool year learning about everything in the song.
An updated version that was more history focused than the one by FoB would be amazing. I liked theirs but I wasn’t blown away and it didn’t inspire a year’s worth of curriculum.
He has since done an updated version and a group that does medieval stye music has done a cool version to going through the days of kings and queens.
Billy Joel is one of my all time favorites. He can write a story like no one else. Similar to Meat Loaf. They can take you on a ride through a story. Such talent.
The video starts out the year Billy Joel was born and names off stuff that happened thru the years. You can see the years changing as the video progresses. It goes up to when he released the song.
LOVE ❤❤❤❤❤
Heard this a gazillion times and never heard “Children of Thalidomide” or put the housewife taking a pill with the Mothers’ Little Helper epidemic until this watch. So MUCH always.
You need to hear For the Longest Time. He sings all the different parts of
Great reaction. I just wish there would of been a sequal - maybe call it ; The Fire Continues Buruing on , End Flames , Non-Stop Flames - it could pickup from where We Didn't Start The Fire - ends at and continues the story until today or whenever it could of been told until.
Absolutely know your history, 100! A powerful song, especially in its era, made even more powerful with the images that don't hold back. It does no one any good to gloss over the past and the atrocities that have been committed since the beginning of humankind, to wax nostalgic over good things in history ("it was better in *my* day" nonsense) without acknowledging the horror. Humans are capable of both massive good and atrocious evil. I loved my teen/young adult era, but I refuse to pretend there wasn't rampant inequality and injustice, hatred and violence. Have we gotten better? In some ways, yes. But if we ignore the past or whitewash it, human society will never progress the way it *needs* to, for everyone. Every race, every culture, every country needs to improve. Some more than others, but we *all* need to move forward and do better.
....I'll step off my soapbox now. That song always gets me riled up, still brings a lump to my throat when I hear it. The video only enhances that.
It's been a hot minute since I have heard anything from him.
This is Gen X music! We grew up knowing the government is complicit in everything and some us are still fighting. Some of us throwing gasoline.
Harfang’s new video is perfect for your next reaction 🔥
Now you've gotta watch the new version!
Thanks for not blocking the lyrics it really kills the music may more fortune and viewers follow you mate cheers
Great song, great reaction. Thanks! Not just history, but controversy.
anyone else wanna see him react to the eminem vs ja rule diss tracks
My 2nd favorite track from him. I love Piano Man
Love it, Brother AB 🎉🎉🎉
Try listening to A New York state of mind. Live at the old Grey whistle stop. Absolutely 💯 🔥 📛
It’s meant as a visualization tool. IE if we don’t do something to better our world, History will repeat itself. Shock and Awe. The photos are awful but he wanted to make sure to put them directly in our sight. To remind us that these things really happened.
Each generation blames the one before with out knowing they them selves had to put out the fire their parents had to deal with. Its a never ending cycle , we see the bad, we try to change it only to be confronted with a new fire to put out....on and on and on it goes. Stop blaming boomers for things, the had to do things we didnt just to survive. Gen X has had to deal with things , Gen z will have to handle what comes up. We all didnt start anything , the world is what it is and it will never change. Love this song, it says so much.
Check out my Billy Joel Playlist ruclips.net/p/PLqA_v6ZbevQiL9XdJ1FQX_lcY4TlNu0Dc
I know, I need to add more to the list!
Goodnight Saigon should defo be next for real
@@ABtheKreator you’re crushing it! Only so much time in the day.
Please do a reaction video of Durand Jones and the Indications with the drummer Aaron Frazier singing Is it any Wonder
I love I love lucy!!
Lol something something something something something... the universal lyrics 🤣...
never more relevant than literally right now in America " We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it but we're trying to fight it"
GenX probably spent a good 5% of their childhood trying to memorize these lyrics (remember we didn't have Internet back then).
Fellow GenX backing that up.
He tells it like it is.
And Solomon said... there is nothing new under the sun.....
You GOTTA follow up with Fall Out Boy's continuation (that Billy Joel has praised) from 2023!!!!!!!!!
Billy Joel’s is 🔥. Fall Out Boy did an update from when this ends to now. I like it but this is better
Billy Joel pulled ZERO punches in the video for this song. I had a history teacher in college that used this song to start the "2nd half of the 20th Century" part of the course. Said that we would cover many of the things in the song and we could write short papers on stuff that wasn't covered in class, as extra credit assignments. Truly, one of the coolest teachers and classes. Got the 19 year olds really thinking about the history that their parents had lived through.
here is the link to the updated version, by Fall Out Boy ruclips.net/video/5xn_yR7afm0/видео.htmlsi=CzsR0x9IQyTh84WO
Now you GOTTA do the one by Fallout Boy. It starts where he left off until today. It definitely puts things into perspective.
Concert 1978 Joel I went and enjoyed
In this song it events that happened though out the years
Waiting for this one too. You were supposed to get Lucy Vibes then going into 60s thru the 80s.
Hey Ab, here's a suggestion for a new artist to check out, if interested. "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) - 1972" (by the channel: Polydor 1000) --Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish-singer songwriter who achieved his most significate success during the 1970's. He's most notably remembered by his distinctive percussive-piano playing style and deeply observational and introspective lyrics...in otherwards a wonderful storyteller.
History has always been in turmoil the cycles just repeat until we learn.
You gotta think of when this came out-80s-90s