Growing Pains

If you study history you will see other eras that looked a little like this one we are in now. The first one that makes sense to me in regard to now is 1900 to 1920. During this time we have the first motorized flight and the further development of the motorcar and motorized trucks of all sizes. This greatly changed the way everything was done in the more developed countries like the U.S. and Europe.

The next series of changes really got going starting with the Great depression in 1929 which culminated in World War II and then the Cold War which went on (forever seemingly) from the end of World WAr II until 1991.

Now, maybe the next cycle of extreme change might be from 1980 with the start of the microcomputer and then in the 1990s the Internet and then 9-11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and then Arab Spring and all that has happened and is still happening in the Middle East.

One sort of wonders if there will be anything left of the Middle east at all the way things look right now and have been looking for several years now. So, maybe the best way to look at all the changes since 1900 is to say they all have been the "Growing Pains" of the human race on earth.

We went from about 1 billion people to about 7 billion or more now and likely to about 9 billion by 2050.

So, whatever we are all headed towards it is all really starting to happen now which sort of reminds me a lot of what happened during about 1910 to 1914 or 1935 to 1941 which is what right now reminds me of the most.

So, Are we going to have another 2nd world war or what? Because of nuclear weapons it won't be at all like World War I or II. It's going to be a completely different thing.

For example, Sanctions are a new weapon of this war along with the Internet and Social Media so even  Putin is now complaining that the Internet is a CIA experiment.

It's difficult to fully make sense of what is going on around the world now because in some ways it keeps changing so fast and has so many different faces around the world.

The one thing that might be useful to say is: "The World is Flat" which basically means that in some ways economically the whole world is equal. Though the U.S. champions equality that also means there is more money for everyone and not just the U.S. which is why this is the slowest post recession recovery since World War II for the U.S.

So, the world is flat is both good and bad for everyone including the U.S. And what is Putin doing?

The world is very paradoxical now because both ISIL and Putin remind us of personalities from centuries ago in some ways. So, I would say the world is a very strange place right now but then again it always has been.