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another figure - johan galtung (mathematician, peace advisor) - talking about the state of the world: * the berlin wall will fall before 1990 * shortly thereafter the soviet union will collapse

* when the udssr collapsed for real, he said there will be a new enemy: it will either be the green party or islam.

* his recent prediction: the american empire will fall before 2020. he usually continues arguing the american republic will be better.

johan galtung is doing "integrative assesment". he is taking into account the non-uniformity observed in some situations. and he considers different attitudes influencing each other.

one example: when the avantgarde left the church, they turned to science. why does science describe the world in terms of perfection? it is easy to see, he says - because "god's creation was perfect".