Freedom is rare. Prosperity can only be earned. Whenever reason is lost and judgment fails, disaster fills in. Our generation does not know this. We lucky ones don't grasp that a few bad decisions and some rotten luck can trip a sequence of events that leaves tens of millions dead.
History is lost to our deaf ears.
The 1960s, for example, get wildly overplayed in today's moronic TV culture. By contrast, the decade from 1908 to 1918 is little understood. Yet it should be studied, over and over. If so, we are sitting ducks. My sour speculations arose after reading a book by Peter F. Drucker.