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At the end of world war 2, people realized the cost of such mass destruction. Not just people, but politicians too, realized that they won’t survive another one. Almost half the population who were badly affected by world war 2 was recovering from the first one. They knew that they had learned the hard way. They realized that unity is required. The UN was formed, and so was the EU, as a precaution to reduce bloodshed. And for a long time we thrived in a peaceful world – of course, in those times the war happened somewhere else, but at home, most of the Western countries felt safe. Perhaps as technology improved, people became less and less educated on how things worked; they don’t need to understand, they only need to know how to use. Now they almost forgot what happened when the truce was broken – bloody war is a simple term back in the WW2 season; if it comes now, we have a whole lot of stuff to throw at each other. It seems the only way to recover is not to look after our leaders, but to educate the next generation about our past, educate our future to learn from the mistakes. Most leaders serve their own small, selfish cause. But the world is bigger than that. To call ourselves an intellectual species, we shouldn’t just advance in technology; more than that, we should advance in humanity as a singular organism to conquer the future. The key to that is unity.