Two Observations on the Viability of Human Civilization

Here are two ways of saying essentially the same thing, that come from a pair of human history’s greatest minds.

As we work our way through the 21st Century, we’re running into the effects of the widening chasm between the amoral rich and the desperate poor: environmental collapse, the decay of our educational system, widespread corruption made possible by a two-tiered justice system, and authoritarianism.