To have the control of energy is to control food and inevitably gain political power. It's even more frightening when we realize that today's national governments do not work well in the quantum world of microchips, fax, and instant global information. William Van Dusen Wishard, president of World Trends Research, points out that all the major currents of the 20th Century intellectual thought have dried up. Marxism has collapsed. Socialism is vanishing.
Totalitarianism is discredited.
Even the French are losing faith in nationalism. Further, Wishard says liberalism inspires few hearts and little action. In the past two years, the U.S.S.R and Yugoslavia have gone from being two nations to becoming 23 nations. We are witnessing the disappearance of national cultural and ethnic boundaries that provide identity. Wishard describes the changes taking place in the world today as an earthquake rolling like a giant wave underneath the foundation of life.