Quote from Ivanovich:
1. So would I.
2. Not in today's world. In today's world, the wars we have abhor innocent deaths. Therefore, they are conducted with precision weaponry against enemy combatants. If you're going to rely on wars to destroy large numbers of the people then you need a war like WWII. We don't have those anymore, so you can't count on wars. I know this is a sick discussion, but facts are facts.
The only thing that's going to do it now is either a plague of some sort, a natural catastrophe (meteor, tsunami, etc) or famine. My bet is famine comes first.
Oh you think I was just talking about weaponry-war? The real war is the all out assault on your standard of living and the way you think.
Famine is on our doorsteps. The next generation (as a whole) will be the first generation in history to see a decline in consciousness--the propaganda machine is at full-force and is working far better than any movie script that could ever write.
Quote from mokwit:
That is what happens. Chinese belief in a 100 year cycle of war and famine. 100 years is 3 generations - 3rd generation is soft while the people under their yolk or across the border are hard and hungry.
Couldn't agree more. We are at a dangerous time as we evolve and get serious pathologies in our consciousness.