While reading a history book about the Twentieth Century I realized more vividly than I ever did before just how fast the world has changed in little over a hundred years. We can travel to any corner of the world with unthinkable speed, and we can communicate instantly with people everywhere. The average person alive today possesses a much greater amount of knowledge and is exposed to much larger amounts of information than was the case at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Life expectancy is unbelievably higher, the planet is overpopulated, and natural resources are overexploited.
All this has wreaked havoc on many of the assumptions, prejudices and mentality patterns that had previously endured unchecked for centuries, if not for millennia. The problems we face today are caused at least in part by the fact that we, as a global society, haven't quite caught up yet with this vertiginous change. Many of our old ideas and ideologies are being perpetuated untried and untested as we try to adapt to ever more rapid change.
My question to you is: do you think we'll ever catch up? Will we ever develop a new mentality, a new set of ideas and expectations, a new set of values and beliefs, and perhaps a new form of government that will be suited to the reality of the times (and to all or most areas of the world) or are we destined to lag behind as the world around us keeps changing faster than we can cope?