I originally heard this as
"Our Grandfathers came from the desert; Our Fathers knew the desert; We have forgotten the desert; Our children will return to the desert."

It is a good reminder of generational cycles of destruction ... hopefully we've all learned enough to break this cycle and change the pattern.

She is explaining the Fourth Turning. We are in the fourth turning now. Get the book fascinating.

But the bigger picture this time is different, we’re going Quantum

Great! Love it! All those civilizations had one crucial thing in common they all concentrated power into a single ruler. America is the first country in history that has set up a system of government with distributed powers. I hope we've learned enough and set up pit falls so that we don't end up like it did in the past history of horrible destruction. The whole world is watching US.