Excellent essay. There's absolutely nothing with which to disagree.

All this seems so bleak to me, because it is only intensifyling. On the short- and medium-terms, I am very pessimistic, I think the fundamentalists on all sides will get stronger until some sort of world-wide cataclysmic conflict ensues. I really don't see anything happening that could prevent this...

However, on the long term, I am optimistic. I believe that it will take that cataclysmic conflict to wake people up. Hopefully our descendants will take advantage of this.