Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.
Crises are harbingers of evolution.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.