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strong men are usually building up from the ruins of bad times.... and it might not be obvious to them
Yes! I'm fact I think the strong men might not be strong men if they feel like they are strong men. For times to be hard enough to produce strong men, they need to probably feel pretty awful.
I don't think the privates in the trenches of WWI or on the beaches of WWII felt like strong men (see Catch 22 or Storm of Steel). It seems much more likely that the men always feel like they are struggling.
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I don't think it's a lie. The cyclical theory is too well represented in all sorts of historic and ancient literature to think it isn't a part of the human condition.
I think a better claim is: It's not obvious which part of the cycle we're in.
The strong men are usually building up from the ruins of bad times.... and it might not be obvious to them, in the moment, that they are the strong men building a better future. They inhabit the world where weak men are still present, and the effects of their weakness are still felt. They might think that they are still in the cycle of decay, even as they plant the seeds of rebirth.
(I'd like to think of us bitcoiners as possibly being in that camp... a bit hubristic of me, I know)