Consequently, what we may expect is recklessness. As the world economy enters a new period of expansion, it will thereby exacerbate the very conditions which have led it into a terminal crisis. In technical terms, the fluctuations will get wilder and wilder, or more ‘chaotic’, and the direction in which the trajectory is moving ever more uncertain, as the route takes more and more zigzags with every greater rapidity. At the same time, we may expect the degree of collective and individual security to decrease, perhaps vertiginously, as the state structures lose more and more legitimacy. And this will no doubt increase the amount of day-by-day violence in the world system. This will be frightening to most people, as well it should be.