Transnational criminal networks now structurally mirror and assault Civilization itself

Evidence

The rise of transnational corporations producing economic goods is increasingly matched by the rise of transnational criminal mafias, drug cartels, and terrorist gangs violently assaulting Civilization. Law and order is the first prerequisite of Civilization and in much of the world—Africa, Latin America, the former Soviet Union, South Asia, the Middle East—it appears to be evaporating, while also under serious assault in China, Japan, and the West. On a worldwide basis Civilization seems in many respects to be yielding to barbarism, generating the image of an unprecedented phenomenon, a global Dark Ages, possibly descending on humanity. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 900

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: the 1990s ‘global Dark Ages’ forecast — which parts of Huntington’s dire list actually materialized and which reversed? A scorecard of his chaos paradigm.