The fourth onrushing wind, ironically, is not global warming*1 but the return of the Ice Age*2. For nearly two million years the earth has been in a massive deep-freeze environment called the Pleistocene Epoch that is periodically interrupted with interglacial warm climates of short duration, such as we are in today, which is ending. The end of the present interglacial warm climate also spells the end for agriculture that is largely keyed to that warm climate. Mankind has existed for over two million years, but in spite of this long period of development only 1-10 million people inhabited our planet when the last glaciation cycle ended slightly over 10,000 years ago. That minuscule population was all that mankind had been able sustain without agriculture. Now we have 6 billion people living on the earth, going on to 10 billion. The coming Ice age will most certainly wipe us out unless we can create the technological infrastructures for indoor agriculture that would sustain us through the coming 100,000 years of Ice Age conditions. While the construction of these infrastructures is totally possible even on a global scale, we might be heading for disaster, because it will take a hundred years to build them and one sees no commitment towards it. Credible scientists suggest that we might have those hundred years left before the next transition to glaciation begins, but with the world fast asleep dreaming of global warming, who will rescue us from our isolation from reality. Many credible scientists suggest that the dogma of manmade global warming is a fraudulent imperial deception that is designed to prevent society from developing the kind of social and economic renaissance that would be necessary for creating itself the enormously large infrastructures that would assure its future existence but spell the end of all empires.



Since we live presently isolated from our humanity and under the spell of the money of the empires, the return of the Ice Age might overwhelm us, especially now that it is joined by the other three winds. An escape is not likely possible unless we can reverse our deeply moving isolation from our humanity that presently keeps the horizons free for the four winds to blow as the imperials desire who master the blowing winds that threaten our civilization and our existence.



The individual issues that are involved here, that drive the four winds, are far too complex in themselves to be dealt with in a quick discussion in the context of this article, especially since these issues are all too deeply overlaid with layers upon layers of lies. Also the four winds that are threatening our civilization today as never before have been a long way in coming. Empires, and the wars and inhumanity that empires spawn, have been a part of the human scene for at least 4000 years, and already even then the empires and their gushing gore were despised to the point of being labeled, the "Whore of Babylon." For 4000 years society has fought against that whore with few successes. Already 3700 years ago the famous reformer Hammurabi had struggled to put some curbs on the excesses of the whore and its barbarism. But nobody has ever really won that fight and secured a victory for mankind. A little light was seen during the Greek Classical Period of Homer, Solon, and the Pythagorean Society and so on, but this dawning light was quickly crushed by the sophistry of Pericles and the seventy years of destruction of the Peloponnesian War. Plato and Socrates worked to restore that lost culture and to extend it further. While his effort created a bright era that became the precursor for the Christian era, no real victory was ever won by either development. Instead a new darkness descended towards an endless seeming night that became the Dark Ages, spearheaded by the Roman Empire and a whole string of other whorehouses that followed in its wake.



The long period of the unfolding Dark Ages was first interrupted by the Islamic Renaissance near the end of the first millennium, and then again in the 14th Century in Europe by the Golden Renaissance, and then once more by the second European Renaissance of the 17th Century that was centered on the Peace of Westphalia, the spark of light in which the USA was founded. Apart from these few bright periods that are all too rare, mankind has been on a loosing streak. We are presently entrenched in that loosing streak as never before. In the onrushing tragedies that are now converging on us the few victories that mankind has achieved over the ages in its periods of renaissance stand out as important sparks that inspire hope for us that we may yet win our victory over the whore and its wars that has evaded humanity's grasp for 4000 years. Those bright sparks from our periods of renaissance that should inspire us today, are all sparks that have a common universal principle that is evidently still valid today. But what is a universal principle?

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche