IF THERE IS A WORLD WAR III – THIS IS WHY.
We are seeing the long tradition of modernization that replaces involuntary empires with voluntary nation-states allied federations, produce the dying gasps of the last three decadent civilizations: the Muslims, the Chinese, and the Russians – all three who are still clinging to their evil, corrupt, decadent, archaic agrarian age empires, Each, like poor France, wishing it was once again in glory by the defeat of neighbors.
If we do have world war three, it will just be the completion of world wars 1 and 2 – the death of empires. The birth of new nation states. In the long and necessary evolution into the optimum polity for mankind: small homogenous, low power distance, egalitarian, equalitarian, redistributive, nation states, under rule of law and participatory government for the benefit of all.
THE EXPLOSIONS OF TECHNOLOGY IN HISTORY
The Agrarian expansion out of Anatolia
The Bronze Age expansion out of Mesopotamia
The Indo-European expansion out of the Steppe
The Greco-Roman expansion out of the Med.
The Germanic Expansion south.
The Germanic Restoration via the Hansa
The Classical Restoration by return of Aristotle
The LIterary Expansion due to the printing press
The Age of Sail because of the Ottoman Conquest
The Eviction of the Corrupt Church from Germanic Lands.
The Empirical Revolution
The Atlantic Expansion
The British Invention of the Modern State
… French Catholic Resistance to Modernity
… German Resistance to Modernity
… Jewish Resistance to Modernity
… Russian Resistance to Modernity
The agrarian, commercial, financial and industrial revolutions.
The Expansion of the modern, ethno, national state.
… The Chinese, Indian, Muslim Resistance to modernity.
The World Wars to End Agrarian Empires.
The End of Involuntary Agrarian Empires and the birth of Voluntary Industrial Federations.
The European ‘explosion’ of modernity spread worldwide.
The European explosion of prosperity dragged mankind out of superstition, ignorance, poverty , starvation, disease, suffering, and early death.
Each of these ‘explosions’ spread across Europe. The natural consequence of prosperity is the utility of small, homogenous, nation states in competition and cooperation with one another. minimizing internal conflict and cooperation.
You blame Europeans for doing the best for mankind across all of history, for doing it poorly. Compared to not doing it at all and continuing in their ignorance and poverty. Yet you desire the results of the Europeans. And your people flee to be with Europeans whenever possible.
The Chinese were as warlike as europeans when they were progressing. The stopped their wars, and stagnated, and fell behind.
The Indians were insufficiently warlike, and were conquered by every band of ruffians who passed by.
The Muslims never cease conquering one another. And after 800ad, began their year after year of decay. One tribe defeats the next who became decadent, defeating the next who becomes decadent and so on. Until when modernity arrived they could not adapt to it, and the only reason for their prosperity, the Silk Road, was ended by the European age of sail, railroad, truck, and airplane.