"Helter, skelter, in the summer swelter" American Pie, Don MacLean. We never really understood those words back in the early 70s. I don't remember it ever being so hot or so windy and there were definitely no incessant fires.
Our surroundings, society and weather patterns really do seem to be on a helter skelter, spiralling ever downwards, faster and faster. We must surely be near the bottom by now, the end of the ride. Will there be survivors to pick themselves up, dust themselves down and start all over again?
The demise of modern civilisations were the culmination of excess, of greed and corruption, war and genocide at the hands of a few. History always repeats itself as we never learn from our mistakes. Maybe that is our purpose in being here, to keep on making these mistakes until we learn that the only way is love, respect, tolerance, compassion.
I have great hope for this planet, which has the capacity to renew itself over and over once the influence of man's civilisations is swept away and a new start is made. We know only what history has taught us of our existence, and that is such a brief moment in time as to be hardly worth a mention in comparison to the time our known universe has been around. And even that is only an educated guess.
So we may have done this many times before and there is no reason to believe that we won't have another chance.
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