This guy’s name is familiar to me, but I don’t know anything about him. I don’t even know if politically he’s conservative, independent, or liberal.
I suppose the fact his piece is in Time magazine says a lot about his political leanings.
- Be that as it may, I think what he wrote that was published there yesterday is worth reading. Here are two paragraphs:
- We’re now at the dawn of an era in which an extreme and fanatical religious ideology, undeterred by the usual calculations of prudence and self-preservation, is wielding state power and will soon be wielding nuclear power.
- That will present the world with two futures. The first is Feynman’s vision of human destruction on a scale never seen. The second, perhaps after one or two cities are lost with millions killed in a single day, is a radical abolition of liberal democracy as the species tries to maintain itself by reverting to strict authoritarianism–a self-imposed expulsion from the Eden of post-Enlightenment freedom.
I expect the second scenario to be closer to what’s in store. It fits the Left Behind plot better. And it might even fit Biblical prophecy better.
Now I lay me down to sleep….
Except it’s too early in the day for that!