The story I have to tell is the history of the next two centuries … For a long time now our whole civilisation has been driving, with a tortured intensity growing from decade to decade, as if towards a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, tempestuously, like a mighty river desiring the end of its journey, without pausing to reflect, indeed fearful of reflection … Where we live, soon nobody will be able to exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Preface of the Will To Power
