Is the future completely chaotic? We know some possibilities, e.g., nuclear or ecological devastation, but no certainties. In fact, chaos produces the unexpected. In that case, could there be a collection or anthology to examine the consequences of low-level possibilities?
If the assassination attempt on Trump had succeeded...
If the Capitol Hill rioters had succeeded in killing a Democrat politician...
There is one possibility that I think we can rule out:
If (name a current world leader) had a Road to Damascus conversion to the exact opposite of his current world-view...
We know enough about human psychology to rule that one out.
Will we all wake up tomorrow morning?
3 comments:
Well, in the 1980's a Soviet system (erroneously) showed a US nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The officer in charge of the system broke protocol and engaged in a "wait a minute" response. Otherwise...
That is another example of what I meant and I should have remembered it.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling and Paul!
Mr. Stirling: If that Soviet hadn't broken protocol we would almost certainly all be dead, one way or another, long before now!
I just hope the US' command and control system for its nukes is more flexible than it was for the USSR (and now Russia).
Paul: "Road to Damascus conversions or experiences are very, very rare. The last one I can think of being the saints who appeared to Joan of Arc. She appeared in France's hour of despair in the years after Agincourt when every thing seemed lost. In his history of the Church Daniel-Rops suggested God intervened like that because He did not want a king like Henry VIII ruling both England and France--and dragging both into schism and heresy. With incalculable harm to the Church and the salvation of souls.
Ad astra! Sean
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