That is the name of the game. We see history repeating itself simply because people have had a tendency to forsake the notion of free will. This seems to be due to a certain laziness as well as a hopelessness which is remedied by a belief that an external "higher force" will intervene on our behalf and save our asses. This would be lovely (were it true) but we have never seen evidence of this. What we have seen is that people who give enough of a damn to actually struggle to achieve things tend to win out over those who leave their futures to "fate."