We're in great crisis because evolution is intent on integrating all the human beings who for thousands of years were deployed remotely from one another in finding their own ways of surviving. The most accurate flat map of the world. Now, she's integrating all of humanity. Earth is going to integrate all kinds of different credos and all the different colored skins. Evolution is intent on doing that.
Evolution is also intent on making all of humanity economically successful.
We've had all the great political institutions, and so-forth, organized that way, so society does not understand. Those who are in power tend to amass even more power rather than yielding to evolution's apparent intent to make all humanity an economic success. When Ellery Channing had been out of Harvard University seven years, we had the battle of Trafalgar. The British Empire was established and was maintained for a hundred and seventeen years. It was established by virtue of ships being able to master the lines of supply of the three-quarters of the earth which are covered with water.