They say around there, that you have to know the Underworld and that the descent is not optional, it is mandatory for everyone.
The future has already arrived and is in accelerated development and as has always happened in history, some countries lead from the educational, techno-scientific, economic, social, political and geopolitical locomotive.
Other countries go in the first, second, third locomotive and many others in the wagons and cabooses. I think that each reader can make his list and location, according to his taste.
History is chaos and order, order and chaos, stability and crisis and vice versa.The world is changing, which forces us to change our perspective and open mind.
We have to "get excited" because we are history and we are in history, until the last breath or at least, our mental health, allows it.