As Americans, we are taking our world into an abyss from which there may be no return, yet we act as though we do not know or care. In our information- and technology-driven age, where millionaires are seemingly made overnight, where production is up and unemployment is down, where lives are lengthened due to modern medicine, where peace is the rule rather than the exception, Americans have been deluded into thinking that everything is hunky-dory. Like an ostrich that feels safe as long as its head is buried in the sand, America has fallen into a false sense of security that will