People in power are captives to their precepts about why they are where they are. It is the clash of these assumptions that include emphatically that warfare is a fact of life regardless of the era in human history. This is not equivalent to the popularized maxim of a "clash of civilizations." Such maxims smack of the pipedreams of authors who would characterize worldviews of nations. Say Tocqueville for instance.
This misses the forest for the trees. And interestingly results from said authors failure to examine their own assumptions about the way in which the zeitgeist determines things. It is a framework founded upon a particularly dreadful assumption that humans are merely amoral talking animals. Such are very much in the sense that frameworks lie behind hypotheses in mathematics, religion and science.
However, due to the current technological status of our control over states of matter, we find ourselves by necessity unable to escape examining our assumptions about warfare. Because we could easily by miscalculation wind up with no future.
Thus it is a predominate urgency to broadcast the message to convene the powers and agree upon an overriding mission for humanity's pathway out of this crisis.
Time for Humanity
We know of various segmentations of time for all realms of physical reality. There are half lives of radioactive elements as well as for fusion in the interiors of stars. Then there are the regular exudations and waves of radiation of cyclical growth and regeneration of plants and animals. These manifest themselves at the nano dimension of proteins and DNA all the way up to the level of the populations of species interactions.
We currently have telescoped our uniquely human conception of time into a very narrow range due to fomenting of crises of potential extermination of society due to the sequalae of financial breakdown and impending global nuclear warfare. This theme of the veritable one minute to midnight syndrome is pervasive and colors all our comings and goings, willy nilly. It is a cultural pessimism that promotes a vitiated and rather ugly type of escapism crudely dressed up as "freedom."
However, for a moment or two, let us explore an alternative perspective of a kind of potentially adjusted timeframe for humanity. Suppose we set our sites on populating Mars and terraforming it over the next century or so. Simultaneously, we will create a habitable "planetoid" fueled by matter anti matter reactions for likewise terraforming the next potentially habitable planet in the closest "Goldilocks zone" star system. This endeavor will perhaps be accomplished say in a few centuries. As part of this mission, we will also extend the health span of individual humans by many years.
What we have pointed toward here may seem like a fantastical vision of science fiction. But if we were to mentally put ourselves back a mere say two centuries of human history would not what we take for granted as technological accomplishments seem fantastical? Thus time is relative to the happiness of humanity's mission orientation. In that sense we experience the simultaneity of eternity in the realm of scientific and artistic truly human imagination.
