It's called a good example of the Hegelian dialectic.

Problem >>> Reaction >>> Solution

Indeed, there is a 'warning or message' being conveyed. When a person looks at a particular piece of art, reads an ancient text, walks up into places like the pyramids, there is undoubtedly something(s) the artists/scribes were trying to tell us.

Let's face it. If such cataclysmic events are own our horizon, then yeah, there is a group of folks out there taking full advantage of this secret knowledge, don't give any flyin' fucks about anything except protecting their own.

Everyone has to remember that all of us art tards, archeology tards, ancient history buffs, etc. look beyond the current Bread-n-Circus shoved down our throats daily. Looking out and knowing that such repeating cycles are never a matter of 'if' but always 'when,' well that's what keeps us on our toes.

Looking at symbols to discern the future.