Why humans keep returning to lost civilizations

OBS-117 · Memory · myth

Every generation believes it is the first to rediscover Atlantis. None ask why Atlantis keeps reappearing. Perhaps civilizations disappear. Perhaps questions do not. I have begun to suspect the ruin was never the discovery. The longing is.

Related signals

• Carl Jung — because the myth persists longer than the ruin
• Signal Noise — because suppressed history keeps resurfacing
• The Music of Who They Were Becoming — because you keep returning to your own origins, too