The End of the World…
October 31, 2022
It was the best of times..it was the worst of times..
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine…
The immortal Charles Dickens’ famous paraphrase for his era, an era of radical social change, revolutions and the guillotine. Chaos and anger, inequality and 
fear, one crisis after another. As human society reaches for technical achievement beyond the 20th century… the world is just as chaotic, frightening and deadly as it was 230 years ago when technology was, well, the guillotine! We’ve gone well beyond that technology when it comes down to finding new ways to kill each other. But the question is this, is all the fear and worry because of technology or in spite of it?
Let’s face it, the technologies that fueled the unprecedented growth in the quality of life for all of us were mostly the result of mankind attacking and defending each other as a matter of course, radar, jet airplanes, missiles and everybody’s favorite …nukes. Which brings us to where we are now. There are social revolutions going on all over the planet, including the good ole USA. There is a reason for this. Growing up is hard as any adolescent in any part of the world 
would be glad to attest to. As much as each adolescent moves into adulthood each must ask if the pain was worth the privilege. Humankind, too, is in the midst of having to make these decisions, not individually but as 7 billion people acting as one. Something that has never been achieved in the history of humanity, a humanity that has been defined almost exclusively through wars and rumors of wars. But is that the fault of the plow or the sword? Of course not, these are only tools and like any tool are only as good or evil as the people that wield them. This will be a burning question in the coming decades as these tools become ever more powerful, ever more efficient. Can we use them wisely?
