History repeating itself?

I must be appearing like a painful unfriendly doom prophet to people around me. Pretty soon I would not be surprised if people run away from me to keep me at arm's length rather than engage in a tête-à-tête with me.
Why? You may ask!

Just the other day, a guy whom I know, was boasting of the new management in the company that he was working. The management had recently changed. The company that he had been working for so many years used to be one of last bastions of multinational companies managed by local businessmen. After many business wranglings and buying overs, it came to be run by a famous foreign company.
He was singing praises of the management of the new company, its efficacy and ease of getting things done. And he went on and on...
So, I told him how 3 centuries ago, a  certain group of businessmen presented themselves with exotic gifts and proposals to elevate their lifestyles as well as ease their lives. Then came troubles over troubles. And poof! The businessmen became their bosses.
And how some clergymen came to natives' land with their Bibles. And they closed their eyes in prayer.. Poof! The clergymen held the land and the natives, the Bible!