Not that I would ever say it's the solution to some of our current problems, but one might see a relation between the years of relative peace, prosperity, and "not having to care", and the incompetent useless leaders, the rise of populism, and the seeming dumbing-down of the electorate (all reflected in the political apathy shown by low participation in the democratic process, etc.). Let me be clear again that I don't believe war is the solution. One of the effects of burning down your house is that you'll have less stuff to move to your new place, but it's not exactly the greatest of solutions. It does have the effect of cutting down your number of possessions, though. If people were living in the constant fear of having to be sent to die in a battlefield or of their house being destroyed by a ballistic nuclear missile, would they really have voted for a guy who says things like this:
"We should have a new force called the Space Force. It’s like the Army and the Navy, but for space, because we’re spending a lot of money on space."
Ten guesses (only the first one counts) on which brainiac is quoted above. If people had to actually believe in something rather than having access to 500 TV channels with unlimited streaming Netflix content (a recent estimate is that Netflix has over 250,000 hours of available content to stream; if you watched 8 hours per day, every day, that would take you (250,000 / 24) / 365 = 85 years = an entire life time to watch) would they be shaken out of a life of complacency and learn something? Probably not...
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