Playing the Phoenix
The world's been in a habitual state of crisis for fifty years. Fifty? What am I saying? It's been in a habitual state of crisis since the beginning — but for half a century now, almost unbearable. Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall?
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Context: Abbot Zerchi laments humanity's cyclical propensity toward self-destruction as atomic war looms again.
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Source: Fiat Voluntas Tua, Chapter 26