I have this growing feeling that the stuff they talked about The Matrix movies about there being multiple previous Matrixes and Zions and they just kept smashing it and starting over. At this point in history, it's easy for me to imagine previous civilizations reaching this point, looking Satan in the eye and realizing they fucked up. We're not a a precipice. We're on the edge of a cliff which is comprised of millions of precipices in fractal form.