We are often led to believe that the previous world-spanning Atlantean civilization was on a higher spiritual level, but I think they were just another high-tech version of our current globohomo that we mistakingly tend to idealize, at the same time disregarding the fact that maybe there really was a reason why the world was flooded and basically thrown back into a Bronze age (too much greed, materialism and degeneracy incurring God's wrath, etc.) as described in Genesis. I'd also like to think that it is possible that the purported 12-thousand-year cataclysmic cycle is some sort of a trial-and-error resetting mechanism whose end goal is to elevate humanity to its final and true spiritual state. Thoughts?