It does appear Western Civ has reached the edge of its petri dish. The rest of the world looks on.

Think how history will come to contextualize this linear, goal oriented society finally having to come to terms with a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality.

Though it is part of the learning curve.

We are close to the end of the beginning, rather than the beginning of the end, as some commentators seem to believe.

Life is like a sentence. The end is just punctuation. What matters is how well you tie the rest of the story together.