Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.
Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism a new path must be found a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
Our government is the potent the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.
I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
The answer of course in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
A creative element is surely present in all great systems and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.