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War, as history demonstrates, represents, even in its preparatory phase, a form of high density entropy; in fact, the more armaments become complex and the more military forces expand in the world, the more energy is used. Moreover, recent years have shown that a missile or a nuclear warhead can only do two things: create super destruction or create storage of nuclear stockpiles until they become obsolete and must be eliminated. Actions such as banning nuclear devices, prohibiting the use of poisonous gas or eradicating bacteriological war will not eliminate the root causes of war. Although these practical measures are important elements in moving towards peace, they are, in themselves, still too superficial to exercise a lasting influence. Are men ingenious enough to create other forms of conflicts and consequently use food, raw materials, money, industrial power, ideology, terrorism, to fight each other in a never-ending search for supremacy and dominion? Neither is it possible to reconcile enormous upheavals by solving specific conflicts and disagreements among single nations. We will need to adopt a structure which is authentically universal. (55:4) It may be interesting, before we continue our analysis, to examine the content of some letters in which two of the greatest personalities of our century put into question the world order, war and the unity of the planet: Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Following an initiative of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation in Paris, aimed at stimulating an exchange of ideas among eminent people in the world on the greatest problems facing human cohabitation, Albert Einstein addressed an open letter to Sigmund Freud informing him of an "issue that in current circumstances, seems the most important in the field of civilization... " "does or does not a means exist to free men from the threat of war?" [58] (55:5) Einstein wrote to Freud because in those years Freud published "the design of civilization" in which he predicted a particular perspective for man with these words: "Men have gained such a power over the forces of nature that now, using them, they could easily exterminate themselves. They know it and their current anxiety, unhappiness and worry derive from this awareness".
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