Blog background

The background to this blogg is my great interest in history and how countries, peoples, cultures and civilizations have evolved and interacted during recorded history and how things might develop in the future.

I think that the basic human character and instincts remain unchanged since the dawn of mankind and that the history of war and conflicts up to our own times do not indicate that we have evolved and become better people. Maybe the best we can say is that we have succeeded in putting up a thin layer of organisations and mechanisms, in recent times, that can prevent and/or mitigate some of the worst atrocities.

However a rapidly expanding world population and increasing scarcity of natural resources, which is occurring in a very unbalanced way on inter-country level, is putting ever greater strain on mother earths capacity to cope and also increases the risk for conflicts on all levels. 

It is also my firm belief that an added danger in this regard comes from the relative decline or rise in wellbeing/prosperity between nations or peoples. This relative change between e.g. nations can be more or less based on real facts but almost as important in this regard can be the generally perceived feeling of relative loss of wellbeing, prosperity, influence, power  etc. A case in point for our present time is the perceived rise of China and perceived decline of USA.