Well, the only solace is that I believe in a Creator of the universe. I also believe that although we may be tiny in his/her mind "it" controls what we suffer, and what we perceive to be the truth. There is so much evidence of past civilizations; but they are not there for a reason. However cognitive dissidence never helped anyone. For instance, Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. What history leaves out is that they were isolated and had many protectionist measures brought against them. Does that mean they should have entered the war in such an abusive fashion? Well unfortunately they suffered the price either way. There are two sides to any story, but what survives after the fallout is left for us to piece together. Perhaps our nature is to destroy the past as we unknowingly always seem to make the same mistakes in the future. Even if we evolved and knew the past (as history has shown), many times we ignore it. Just human nature I guess.