Nice to get the long perspective on things. The only difference in today’s world, of course, is that the ripping apart you describe could be the result of a nuclear bomb going off. The very idea is uncivilized and if it happens, civilization will be set back several millennia if not more. I hope we have the wisdom to avoid that and to continue pushing forward in the end.
Well, there is that ever-present threat in any view of the future. A couple of other threats as well dealing with disease and an uninhabitable planet--at least one unable to sustain our current standards of living and population number.
Nice to get the long perspective on things. The only difference in today’s world, of course, is that the ripping apart you describe could be the result of a nuclear bomb going off. The very idea is uncivilized and if it happens, civilization will be set back several millennia if not more. I hope we have the wisdom to avoid that and to continue pushing forward in the end.
Well, there is that ever-present threat in any view of the future. A couple of other threats as well dealing with disease and an uninhabitable planet--at least one unable to sustain our current standards of living and population number.