J C KAPUR Publisher, World Affairs and President, Kapur Surya Foundation, New Delhi, India. - Futurist, Long Time Friend of R. Buckminster Fuller, Entrepreneur. The following is the beginning of an introduction of a Message from J. C. KAPUR Publisher and Editor in Chief titled: THE WAY OF ALL EMPIRES: "The working of the present paradigm of 'Armament Protected Consumerism' is aborting the process of evolution by freezing it at the lowest of the seven stages of human advancement—that is at the material level. Today we are suffering from the human and ecological consequences of reckless globalisation together with its paraphernalia of endless violence, terrorism, conquest, civilisational conflicts and the break down of the ethical and moral order. As this process advances, hundreds of millions are being trapped at diverse levels of deprivation; while only a few million are its visible beneficiaries. The entire operation is envisioned, planned, manipulated, controlled and...