INSiGHT Journal

Introduction to Volume 1
Descending into a New Dark Age--an era ruled by transnational criminal networks--total chaos is
becoming our new social reality. Due to the corroding influence of Agents of Chaos, we are
already beginning an apparently permanent period of total war worldwide.
Escalating instability--caused by state-imposed austerity, internally displaced persons, war
refugees, climate change, and a skyrocketing membership in religious fundamentalismmeans
our ability to mentally cope is diminishing. And the agents of chaos are in the drivers seat.
Hunting the Nightmare Bacteriaa documentary about antibiotics misuse that has promulgated
untreatable lethal diseasesuggests human overpopulation, and its attendant climate change
impacts, might not be a future problem. Perhaps, as a species, we are just passing through.