Thus Henry Kissinger in an interview for Der Spiegel today. “Henry Kissinger is the most famous and most divisive secretary of state the US has ever had,” elaborates the newspaper. “In an interview, he discusses his new book exploring the crises of our time, from Syria to Ukraine, and the limits of American power. He says he acted in accordance with his convictions in Vietnam.” Born as Heinz Alfred Kissinger in Fürth, Germany, in 1923, his Jewish family would later flee to the United States in 1938. After World War II, Kissinger went to Germany to assist in finding former members of the Gestapo. He later studied political science and became a professor at Harvard at the age of forty. Kissinger recently published his seventeenth book, World Order (New York: Penguin, 2014). For the greatest part of history, world order was regional order. This is the first time that world order as such truly exists, but there are no universally accepted rules of behavior in this world. These rules now need to be cultivated rather than imposed. As to chaos versus order, he hopes that the proliferation of nuclear weapons, climate change, and terrorism should create enough of a common agenda around the world. For him, these dangers bode well for the imperiled human species. But, sadly, this is the only time he mentions climate change in his interview. Having finished reading it, I checked his book, as well. To my surprise, there is not even a chapter in it dedicated to climate change. Goodbye, Kissinger! And goodbye, world order! Soon enough, even regional order will be hard to imagine, let alone maintain. Once again, the order will be local to boot, as it was during all of prehistory. The upcoming wars will only speed up the arrival of posthistory, the prehistory’s mirror image.