"... On Aug 26, 4:59 pm, Deane Kellison <[email protected]> wrote: ..."
> do you really believe the " The days of brute force are subsiding even > though it still occurs." Without a doubt. The 20th century was arguably the bloodiest and deadliest century in all human history. Conservative estimates that more than 400 million people died violently in that hundred years. For almost half that time we lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation. I think a massive movement for peace began sometime after WWII and had a surge in the sixties and seventies which subsided by the eighties. But it merely became quieter while moving on all fronts. By 1990 the Soviet Empire dissolved and the threat of nuclear double kill ended. We will no longer see world wars. They have been replaced by random terrorism. That is our biggest threat and likely will be for some time to come. There are always those disgruntled enough to resort to violence but it will be random and not all that successful thanks to the global spy apparatus. Today there are thousands of organizations and groups of people dedicated to peace, non-violence, open communication and other such endeavors that open lines of communication, the greatest of which is the Internet. I believe it is a simple fact of human history that the more communication we have the less brutal we become. There are educational, medical and social organizations spread around the world to begin to heal the wounds of our past. We are well on our way to establishing a world peace. The fact that we have a global economy virtually guarantees that. People love one thing more than violence, and that's wealth.
