Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an I am and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.

I don't know how not to get the flu.

Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.