Hobsbawm on the Modern World
One of the treats for those who are interested in history is to read Eric Hobsbawm's four volumes on different ages, from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War. They make for a very rewarding reading.
Thread with links to all four books.
Nietzsche saw in Heraclitus the philosopher who had liberated existence from the need for justification. The world builds and destroys in perpetual innocence, without moral bias, the way a child piles sand by the sea and begins again without regret.