Twenty years ago today, a process began, with the falling of the Berlin Wall, that ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, marking, as a respected commentator noted at the time, "the end of history." The United States and the Soviet empire were, of course, the ultimate in human social evolution and the epic battle between them and their spheres of influence represented the final step in the history of mankind.
As we know (and as was predicted by men who make far more money than I and whose words are heeded by academics and officials alike) nothing of consequence has happened since that time; our now-permanent state of security was, naturally, not in any danger from irrelevant, lesser forces in bizarre corners of the world.
And the money freed up when military budgets became unnecessary has brought about this blessed utopia in which we now all live.
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