See:
Conceptual Changes In Fiction II
A Debate About The Future
Comments On A Debate About The Future
Comments On A Debate II
I would be interested in a future history series on this basis:
the UN government continues to fight the "protean enemy";
the UN-, then Solar Union-, sponsored Psychotechnic Institute produces a growing nucleus of saner individuals and influences education and public opinion;
the government and the Institute are honest about their inability to predict or prevent social crises;
they are opposed by "Humanists" and others but not overthrown in a Revolution;
Planetary Engineers terraform solar planets;
generation ships, built around comfortable internal ecologies, are not psychotechnically engineered to generate social divisions and conflicts;
we eventually read about "...the end of human adolescence, and beginning of first mature culture," as mentioned at the end of Robert Heinlein's Future History Time Chart.
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Kaor, Paul!
However desirable such a scenario might be, as you outlined it, I'm skeptical that it will ever happen or even be possible. Because I think human beings will quarrel and fight about ANYTHING we can think of. And no mere psychology will eliminate that tendency for bellicosity from mankind.
Ad astra! Sean
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