History repeats itself...

Well according to Terence McKenna and his theory of history and time. Where he argues that if we pay enough attention we can see the resonance of history in our everyday life, and as we move closer to the "end date" history will repeat itself at an alarmingly increasing rate. I believe that the intuition of Terence's theory is plausible, although I do not agree with him that the ordinary laws of physics will start do disintegrate, I mean honestly would we really want that? But I came to think of this when reading about the disaster in Japan, and I cannot see any other analogue for this event than the bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki during world war II. So, where will you see Rome fall today?