to every thing, turn, turn, etc.
People are pattern-matchers. We also like to discern cycles, I think, paradigms of dynamic balance, specifically creation and destruction. This is the Flood story, for example; the death and rebirth of the world, the genocide of mankind. People make more people, and people fight*. This is the simplest narrative arising from those two imperatives.It's also essentially ending conflated with beginning, at least in some cases. Some post-apocalyptic novels, for example, contain the definitive end of humanity, like Cloud Atlas, for example; although even in this case, the possibility of transcendence is such an integral constituent element that it's hard to think in such facilely polarized categories by the time you put it down.*One might note that in the story of Noah, there was no direct vying between the righteous and the damned. However, notice that the two groups are set apart entirely in quality: Noah was "blameless in his age" or "righteous in his age," and everyone else was, well, probably less than righteous in any fashion, especially if one is partial to the exegetical tradition following this interesting turn of phrase which considers the patriarch exceptionally righteous to be such an utterly correct person in a time of probably rampant folly, sin, and vice.
