There are five major forces that together, operate in a big cycle: - Financial force – money, debts, markets, economy - Domestic political force – internal order and disorder, wealth gaps, and conflict between the left and the right - International world order force – great power conflicts as rising power challenges - Humans’ inventiveness force– Advances in technology - Acts of nature force – droughts, floods, and pandemics We can use these forces to understand the reality that we are now living out, and to understand the risks of where we are headed. theallinpod