World War III

The first three days of Iran's Revolutionary Guard chief in Iraq prompted worldwide warnings that we are on the verge of the outbreak of World War III.

It's almost done now: Whenever some military conflict breaks out somewhere in the world, three categories of prognosticators warn World War III. The first are the dogmatic pacifists, who after every bullet ever fired in the world, see the great disaster coming. The two are religious preachers, who, as their ancestors have been doing for 2000 years, see in every war the warning signs of Armageddon, the Last Battle of the World. The third are the counterfeiters of Nostradamus's school, who require among his metaphors dark warnings for our time.

Today the Internet has given great promotional power to these disaster prophets. Consequently, their impact on the sowing of global fear is great. The Hollywood industry itself has come under this influence. In the last ten years Hollywood has produced more apocalypse-related movies than in all other periods of its history. Even at the Golden Globes 2020 award sharing in California, he received the top film “1917”, which deals with World War I. Martin Scorse with his movie  The Irishman came out with fingers in his mouth from the price division. We are living in a time when gang age cannot compete with the epic of the world's recent wars. Apparently, American art critic Frederick Jameson is right when he says that in our time more people believe in the end of the world than in the end of capitalism. Bad news for the Marxist Communists, given by a prominent Marxist.

And what about philosophers?

Two centuries earlier Hegel had advised them that it is not their job to predict the fate of the world. The philosophy is neither prophecy nor divination. Marks had ignored this advice by giving his grand prediction: capitalism will be replaced by Communism, and all mankind will live happily on earth! Hegel's disregard, he'll be back in 1989, very close to Hegel's legalized advice. The fall of the Berlin Wall was the end of faith in the coming of the Communist happiness of mankind. The failure of Marx's prediction came first because, in spite of his conviction, human history does not submit to iron laws, which would enable us to predict it; and secondly, because the very communists who took power around the world, on behalf of the march towards the communist paradise, turned the world into a true hell, far more frightening than the eternal hell which Dante Aligier presents to us in his poetic work “The Divine Comedia <11x>

Today Hegel's advice is a rule in philosophical thinking. All we can do is understand our present after we understand yesterday's logic. The view of the future remains unclear, because we are locked within the present, while those who make decisions about common humanity do not consult the teachings of history. The only lesson from history, is that we don't learn from it, Hegel says. So we repeat it, with all its mistakes and disasters. This allows us to say something very general about the future: people, likely even in the coming centuries, will continue to be around each other. If this fall to the neck a grand finale is going to happen, no one can say that! Anyone who tries to say it ends up in the practice of divination. There's something interesting about Hobbes' “Leviatan”, the greatest philosophical work on politics written in the Anglo-Saxon world. When we leave people in their natural condition, they end up in a war against everyone, Hobbes says. When this war threatens to wipe out all mankind, then the instinct of life - or, rather, the instinct of survival - moves people to give up this war and find peace. Global peace is achieved when mutual global annihilation appears on the horizon. From the day the world's great powers became owners of nuclear weapons, this extinction rests on mankind's horizon. Therefore, there will be no Third World War. As long as these weapons don't fall into the hands of terrorists who dream of living the last days of the world. Oops! I made a prediction! Excuse me, but Hobbes is at fault. Even the desire, which is deeply within the reach of the vast majority of humans, is the desire for a peaceful future on earth. With no World War III and an apocalypse ending at the borders of the Hollywood-ian fixation.