Such speculation leads us nowhere and everywhere, but it makes no difference to our understanding of our immediate problems. - Michael Moorcock

He wondered if, in achieving such a noble way of life, a people became automatically vulnerable to destruction by those who had not achieved it. If so, it was an irony of cosmic proportions.

He gasped as he stepped forward to peer at them, observing living faces, eyes which were undying, lips frozen in expressions of terror, of anguish, of misery. They were like so many flies in amber.
“That’s the unchanging past, Prince Elric,” said Oone. “That’s the fate of those who seek to reclaim their lost beliefs without first experiencing the search for new ones.”

We can only be kind to one another," she said, "there is scarcely any alternative if we are to resist chaos.