In a recent exchange with friends, it was suggested that in dealing with these groups I was advocating “waiting until we reach a higher level as a species.” I realized what I am advocating is that we should be fighting tooth and nail to reach that higher level. My insight is that dichotomous thinking is far and away the biggest single barrier to that goal. To me groups like Hamas and ISIS and Boco Haram are irrelevant because it is too late. Just like it was too late by the late 30’s to stop Hitler. The time to stop Hitler was 1919. Had the Versailles Treaty looked more like the Marshall plan, Hitler would have died in obscurity.  The time to stop the rise of the current groups would have been 10-15 years ago when most of the current adherents were teenagers. My concern is what will the world look like 10-15 years from now? A hand full of isolated groups numbering in the 10s of thousands is irrelevant. Hitler commanded a single army 10 times that size. Built on dichotomous thinking. If we don’t start now doing something seriously different, this is what we will be facing. A unified terrorist army numbering in the hundreds of thousands fueled by dichotomous thinking. Information flows like never before and yet the world is becoming more and more violent. Why? Why is the Information Age failing us?