A pathetic tale of recurring greed, power, war and self-delusion
The human race exhibits zero self-awareness and introspection. No accumulated wisdom.
Each ascendant society goes on to repeat the exact same mistakes of the previous one, ending in inevitable collapse. It's a highly predictable repeating tale of greed, power, war, and uncontrolled hubris. All of which takes place in broad daylight while everyone pretends it's not happening.
The lessons of history exist solely in the past, they are assiduously ignored by the current crop of megalomaniacs, who choose instead to follow the same failed game plan as their failed predecessors. Each terminal generation assuming that the laws of reality don't apply to them.
Like a 400 pound fat man who can't get out his own way, the human race is prone to serial failure.
This cycle will only be broken when this species gets tattooed with a lesson that sticks. A sense of foreboding humility passed down from one generation to the next.
That lesson is coming.
