Freedom is exactly right, but it seems to me that resource constraints can curtail freedom sufficiently to cause aggression. I think George Orwell said somethi

Freedom is exactly right, but it seems to me that resource constraints can curtail freedom sufficiently to cause aggression. I think George Orwell said something along the lines that blocking access to resources is also an act of aggression. As long as we rely on highly centralized resources, such as oil, it's hard to see how the world can indefinitely avoid politics that will anger those who rely on the resources. Perhaps I am a bit naive, but I think that fairly equal increases in energy can do a lot to reduce the causes of such aggression. Cheap energy makes it easy to start a business and cheap to produce food. Economic prosperity is a good antidote to belligerence and a strong economic class is a good counter-balance to the political establishment of a country. If you will permit me more naive idealism, this is one of the reasons why I have such high hopes for nuclear fusion.