HISTORICAL terms to describe eras in our past, like ‘The Enlightenment’, imply an evolution and advancement of singular human minds to suggest better ways of managing forms and matter for the benefit of all. This generational increase in individual mind power informs the collective consciousness and enables us to continue upon the path of human improvement.
However, there will always be those who look behind to where we have come from and think we have reached the pinnacle of human development.
Such people are a danger to the rest of humanity because they are likely to make decisions that impede our improvement and the greater the power they possess, the more retrograde the effect.
What would be more regressive to human betterment than a nuclear war, which would put those unlucky enough to survive back in the Dark Ages.
Such a nuclear war could be started from a missile fired from a British Trident submarine.
Where would be the progress in that?
GEOFF NAYLOR
Winchester
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