Anyway, I was more disappointed to find that this wasn't about randomness vs. determinism.
I was disappointed that this wasn't free-will verses fate.
Ultimately the above two choices are both too boring and I highly doubt that reality in its incredible intricacies is really that banal. I would be far more inclined to believe that reality implements something far more bizzare then anything mentioned thus far.
Whether history is determined by randomness or determinism one might even ask if history even is well ordered to begin with. For instance.
Consider the following moral paradox:
4 planets in a basically straight path, each 1 light year from each other in an imaginary universe.
The two outer planets hate each other
The two inner planets hate war.
The two inner planets declare that they will convene on anyone who starts a war and use their armies to crush the planet that declares first.
Now let's say the left outer planet fires it's laser of doom at the right planet and much to it's surprise, three years later, the right planet's laser hit's it surface...
In other words from the left planets perspective, and the left inner planet's perspective,
the left planet was the aggressor in the war.
However, using special relativity, we can deduce that it took three years for the light from the right planet to reach the planet and that means according to the right planet it fired it's laser first only to get hit by a counter-attack by the left-most planet three years later.
In other words, the universe seemingly permits two different time-lines according to where you sat in the event.
The right-most planet saw itself as the aggressor of the war and the left-most planet as the peaceful nation (really really good telescopes would see the people there smiling and going about their day to day lives while a laser homed in on their sad little world).
Right most planet fires
Left most planet launches counter-attack
The left-most planet saw itself as the aggressor and believed however that the right-most planet launched the counter attack.
Left most planet fires
Right most planet launches counter-attack
When the two inner planets convene each one reports a different ordering of events from two different time lines. In other words, there were two aggressors to the war and two defenders in the war.
This leads to an ethical paradox... who should the inner planets declare war on?
The above example is hardly random mind you, but it does bring into question what a history actually is and whether it looks the same for you as it does for me.