My generation had The Bomb. I grew up in a targeted industrial city and had a map on my bedroom wall of the concentric circles of he various levels of destruction - until MIRVs made that obsolete.
Those days may yet return, but bioweapons, like cyberwarfare, are so much more stealthy, not to mention potentially infinitely more granular using genetic targeting (you destabilize a nation by targeting one ethnic faction while suggesting another was the perp, then take control of what remains).
All of which is to say that, if you have complaints now, perhaps you're being too hasty.
So what looks bright in your future, fellow kids?
Those days may yet return, but bioweapons, like cyberwarfare, are so much more stealthy, not to mention potentially infinitely more granular using genetic targeting (you destabilize a nation by targeting one ethnic faction while suggesting another was the perp, then take control of what remains).
All of which is to say that, if you have complaints now, perhaps you're being too hasty.
So what looks bright in your future, fellow kids?
@iskandrian on a level though I think we're going through another cultural revolution analagous to the 1960's, ugly as sin up close but this is because we have the freedom of information which clearly shows how limited the previous forms have become.
it's a story as old as time but for all the chaos and fear there are great opportunities to move forward as a species