Just as for centuries, if not millennia, humans have carried the burden of myths about honor and war, in contemporary times (19th and 20th centuries) this began to change. The greater our destructive capacity, the more alarms were raised. The Kantian philosophical-political idea of Perpetual peace (1795) has been slowly making its way into our minds and hearts. A winding road, with dead ends, whose end we will still have to wait to see, if there is an end at all. It's so hard to believe in happy endings, isn't it? Today, almost no fiction has one. Neither happy nor unhappy. Everything is open, uncertain. Series don't really end... We are in a to be continued Infinite. War resists disappearing tooth and nail. It's ingrained in us.

We live in uncertain times. And when times are uncertain, theories dance. Trump and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza increase uncertainties about the future. There are many types: the peace-war tandem, the struggle for hegemony between two empires (the US and China) and three major nuclear powers (Russia is also added), the shadows of various energy sources and water, a global population growth of around 20-25% in the coming decades, fundamental uncertainties, fundamental uncertainties, fundamental uncertainties, etc. The result is a colorful tapestry of fragmented uncertainties.