War

The trick to ending war is not to attempt to remove the Hadeotic impulses (which is hard) but to fight war by proxy.

We are already doing this with drones and other automated technologies.

Ultimately, however, we can simulate war in computers. Well, we can already since it’s the favorite pastime of most computer nerds.

The trick is to get sovereign enemies to submit to the outcomes of the computer simulations. We can’t have the losing party spitting the dummy and  launching a nuke in spite.

One way we can get this to work is to get all human life into the simulation. Bring on the Matrix.

The other is to keep developing and in a thousand or two generations we might have developed the ego and super ego to such an extent that the Hadeotic impulses of the id are sufficiently suppressed.

But we have to survive that long without terminal war, of course.