Keynote speech delivered on October 3, 2024, at the Global Changes Centre’s conference in Skopje, Macedonia.

Despite the video’s title, this is not mainly about the decline and fall of the United States’ Empire. That will happen without my predictions…

Instead, at this truly amazing conference, I present some major points for what I believe will be a much better world – a multipolar or multi-nodal – world in much better balance. We will be able to solve humanity’s larger real problems because the catchword of this coming epoch will be cooperation and peace, not – like at present with US/NATO/EU dominance, confrontation and militarism.

Think of what we can do when we get rid of this constant burden of the (self)destructive ways of the US/NATO/EU world (11% of humanity) and when, instead, they join the rest (89%) of humanity with the necessary philosophy of unity in diversity coupled with pulling together and lifting together!

Secondly, I consider it an intellectual’s duty to not just be critical but be constructive, to present future ideas and global visions and promote dialogue about them.

It is easy to only be critical and point to problems. It is more difficult to come up with ideas and solutions. People tend to shoot them down as ‘nice but a bit unrealistic., aren’t they?’ But no one is better off -also not humanity – if we only disseminate doom and gloom à la ‘We’re on the way to World War III.’ (People who state that simply do not know; they basically vent their own anxiety).

Making people feel even more psychologically discouraged and dejected is, in my view, simply immoral, and it only stimulates people in power to manipulate us all more…

In short, I refuse to be deterred by them!