Love the 'brutality option' as in,
(Motorcycle crazies startin' out one afternoon..)

Well chaps, what'll it be today?

\ufffd mindless destruction?
\ufffd senseless brutality?
\ufffd deliver some flowers to the old folks home?
\ufffd all of the above?

Kirkeg\ufffdrd was probably pretty close in lots of ways, not just that one IMhO. But damn few prolly stumbled upon the Pseudonymous Works of K. except in dry academe. I wonder what he'd have thought, with a crystal ball to see Murica 2001 [??]

Christian 'world' has always been mercantile-based = why they like Onward Christian Sojers and similar bellicose mantras. That's why they 'won' over the Muslim variety of fantasies about 'us all'. We're likely not as well organized as was Attila or Genghis - but we have the will to make up for that via any means techno- possible.

I have no idea what anyone 'ought' to do next, but expect that your encapsulation is close enough for govt. work: it'll come down to kick-ass and as always Gawd Will be on Our Side\ufffd, assisted a bit with nukes and transistors. Still.. one always has to ask,

Is the World.. ready for self-government. Yet?
(And.. can civilization survive the ravages of religion or, will its mania alone, precipitate the End?)

Cheers,

A.