Epigraph

The story I have to tell is the history of the next two 
centuries. For a long time now our whole civilization has been 
driving, with a tortured intensity growing from decade to 
decade, as if towards a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, 
tempestuously, like a mighty river desiring the end of its
journey, without pausing to reflect, indeed fearful of  reflection.
Where we live, soon nobody will be able to exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche - The Will to Power