What Next For Our Best-Of-All-Possible-Worlds World?

[P]ersistent terrorism and failing-​​state lawlessness on land and at sea, unresolved dangers of nuclear and other WMD proliferation, escalating drug wars, and rising nationalism among armed sub-​​national ethnic groups and political factions. Military conflict will also arise from the economic catharses*, population disruptions, and regime volatilities caused by glob­alized natural resource short falls and rivalries, unpredictable climate changes, resulting floods and droughts and famines, desperate mass human migrations, continued emerging pandemics, plus other interconnected disasters we can’t even name yet.

Is that enough for you? That's only a quick list of the physical dangers facing civilization. (We love typing "civilization," as if we're serious or something. And as if actual "civilization" exists anywhere.) We're too numb from the mention of those menaces to add the litany of the aesthetic, cultural & psychological agonies the human psyche will be going through at the hands of shadowy corporate interests & their government minions.

The article is entitled

A Christening on a Cold Dark Day

We imagine the urine running down the typist's legs kept him warm, if not illuminated.

*Phrase of The Wk. Nominee.