Two nightmarish possibilities

Sir, Christopher Caldwell’s brilliant “Youth and war, a deadly duo”, January 6, based on the probably even more brilliant book Söhne und Weltmacht by Orell Füssli, and that now has me brushing up on my 35year´s never more spoken and originally bad German, brings me two visions. The first is about a clash-of-generations pitting the baby boomers and other older people all over the world, wielding their wealth and political power, against hoards of desperate barehanded youths, and the other, of a big global arena were a mass of old Neroes are enjoying the spectacle of young gladiators killing each other. Let us pray we are wise enough to spare ourselves either nightmare.

Caldwell Füssli Söhne Weltmach youth