2084 and Beyond

The cessation of the Cold War, an event that was predicted to reduce tensions and dangers in the world, moved the setting of humans' deadly aggressive nature to another stage. From Cold-War mega-powers confronting each other, the post Cold-War stage is set with humans acting out their aggressions under the guise of righteous religious and political credos. But not with mega-nation states; with diffused national tribes, those that have existed for centuries. The humans' tendency for pointless aggression has taken on a new dimension: The possibility of ideologically driven parties---attempting to fulfill their long-held wish for their tribal hierarchies to succeed---using weapons of mass destruction on the human race. 2084 and Beyond positions the reader into the future. The reader is looking back to the early years of the twenty-first century: today's world. By studying the Human Archives, the reader learns how humans, facing dangers to their existence, decided to make accelerated changes to their genetic and mental makeup. They had begun to use weapons of mass destruction on themselves. If left undone, the humans were racing toward a world of chaos and destruction. Their use of these weapons to vent humans' revenge and aggression was proving to be devastating to their societies. This triad formed a deadly trinity and had placed the humans' future on earth in peril. But the situation could be changed. Extraordinary progress was being made in treating the genetic and cerebral underpinnings of violent, pathological behavior: the basis for self-destructive acts. Black tells the story of how humans realize they had to eradicate this deadly trinity of weapons, revenge, and aggression from their makeup before the deadly trinity eradicated them. He describes how the humans dedicated themselves to save their cultures and their way-of-life. In so doing, they underwent changes to their DNA and brain---a process that is underway today---to become a significantly altered race; one that was dedicated to defeat the deadly trinity. The humans established 2084 as a milestone for having conquered the deadly trinity. This date was chosen a century after George Orwell, the author of 1984, had laid down the gauntlet for ending perpetual war. Did they succeed? The reader, our future relative, turns to the next page of the Human Archives to find out. So shall we.