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Meaning: You can't spot a trajectory in while you're half way along it?
Meaning: You can,but it doesn't mean anything epistemologicaly?
Considering how many centuries it took humanity to get from its first curiosity about how things work to predicting the trajectory of a falling rock (the irony of your handle piles higher and higher), predicting trajectories in history is a fool's task. How many predicted the Internet? How many predicted the end of the Soviet Union? How many can predict developments in Ukraine?
"History is on our side" is not an argument, but a cudgel.
Yep. It's nothing but a minor variation on "God is on our side!" X-D
Don't use it then. :-)