Empires thrive and then deteriorate. Like the greek, the mesopotamian, the egyptian. It is an endless circle that keeps repeating. Hopefully people shall start respecting nature in order to continue harnessing the benefits of this planet. Otherwise we will have to move to a monastery in Mars. And the story shall start over again.
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I am more inclined to think that the (recent) story began on Mars, conflict destroyed that planet, and a remnant re-established on Earth. :-)
It is very hard to fit recent archaeological findings within the "history" that I was taught in grade school:
Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/
Imagine. Such a huge site, deliberately buried for some long distant future generation to re-discover (ours) . By whom? And why?
Mars, Venus.. you name the place.
Are we approaching the apocalypse?
Well, many people I know (some I am even related to) call it the "singularity," a la Ray Kurzweil, rather than "apocalypse". But I tend to hold transhumanists, socialists, strict logicians, and atheists all in equal contempt :-)
And being a recovering musician I prefer to conceptualize (if I absolutely have to, for the sake of conversation) what is happening as the start of a new octave.
"Magnets pull and push us 'round,
To cut the cord, a chord must sound"