Preface: Seeding Violence

There is a global appetite to humiliate others and bring them down, often in brutal ways. The public shaming of others has become a chief entertainment. Anyone can find themselves in the cross hairs of humiliation and social media has made this all the more possible and apparent. However, the worst is yet to come from this widespread phenomenon. Humiliation delivers much more than personal or individual loss and calamity. It may be human society’s greatest challenge yet. The relentless humiliation of nations, organizations, groups and individuals is placing our world in peril if we but knew it. Indeed, humiliation seeds violence and can be viewed as the world’s greatest risk to peace. If, as some people believe, we are already in a less than visible World War III, we can suspect that humiliation is the real culprit and it will bring us all down unless we do something about it.