Thanks. But mankind’s default condition is more than poverty and war. Should have added in tyranny and slavery.
This line of thought got me to thinking about the old saw, “The perfect is the enemy of the good,” which is of course true.
And it struck me that in today’s world, this might more accurately be put as, “The perfect is the most deadly enemy of the good.”
The USA and the western societies that have sheltered behind it for the last 60 years have provided, objectively, greater prosperity and simultaneously greater individual freedom than any other in all human history.
However, problems remain, and therefore a majority of the citizens of these societies seem bent on their “fundamental transformation,” with the likely though not perhaps inevitable result that they will lose either their freedom or their prosperity or both.
Since these societies aren’t perfect, they must be destroyed. The perfect is therefore the most deadly enemy of the pretty damn good.
hmm..interesting thought. We are the most advanced and enlightened civilisation that has ever existed, and yet of course we cannot be perfect. In trying to achieve that perfection, we will destroy what we have. Logical, and I fear perhaps true.