I have a very strong feeling that we (in the west mainly) are going towards a very dark period. I notice that people have developed an insensitivity to issues which would have caused a global outcry only 20-30 years ago and would have been stopped. I did not write it in my book, but I strongly believe that 9/11 was the inflection point for western civilization. Then 25 years of televised massacres have made people insensitive to such dramas. When something like Gaza happens and is watched live by hundreds of millions and nothing happens, people become indifferent, then the next step is we will see that happening sooner or later near our homes.