When worldwide ignorance and complacency grow exponential and reach new heights.......the world is heading for a cataclysmic event, once again to settle things down. In layman’s terms and plain English, a war. Just about everywhere on this globe governments are re-arming and buying war material as if it is going out of style. What are they expecting or are their intentions? Certainly not just for the sake of having fun
I look at the course of human history being like plate tectonics. Forces and pressures build within the crust, and then the pressure is released in a sudden cataclysmic release along a fault line. Same with humans. Societal forces build up the pressure, until the existing system cannot contain them and the pressures are vented in violent wars.
The problem with human wars though is that the tectonic cycle has been stable for billions of years. In the human version, as technology generally advances, the technology of mass killing also improves, and the “earthquakes” are more devastating. The progression from sword to gun to rifle to machine gun resulted in mass slaughter a century ago. Seventy-five years ago a war that began with biplanes and cavalry charges ended with nuclear weapons.
Today, a war fought with computer guided killing systems may make human life above ground in a battle zone virtually impossible.