“It’s still the same old story – a fight for love and glory. A case of do or die…” Will the next civilization remember us, as time goes by?
“Here today and gone tomorrow.” Or, “What’s it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the moment we live?” There’s also that seemingly nonsense verse that goes “How will the whole thing end, and when?”
“Atlantis – Insights from a lost civilization.” by Shirley Andrews, another book that just seemed to come into my hands. Fascinating.
“Once upon a time…” is how many old myths and legends begin, and yet, for most of us, perhaps, we think of the story of the rise and fall of heroes and civilaztions as almost fiction, and yet we know that almost anything we can imagine, might have been, or might yet be, real.
Atlantis was superior to our own so-called Western civilization in almost every aspect, except perhaps, in military equipment and the means of mass destruction, or mutural destruction.
How did Atlantis meet its Waterloo? Not from any other nation, for it was supreme, above all. Only the forces of Nature could, and did, destroy this highly developed nation and its continent island. Volcanoes, eqrthquakes, and rising seas all seemed to join forces to bring an end to a people who had lost touch with the best that they had to offer – a highly developed culture.
Can we learn a lesson from this tragic ending, or is it too late in the game? We’ve all enjoyed watching and getting caught up in a game between equal opponents/teams, and then the bell rings. The game is over.
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