Split Second (Split Second, #1)

by Douglas E. Richards

humanity was on course, not to evolve toward greatness, but to devolve into idiocy.

evolution didn’t reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most.

Spilling blood to protect the homeland was one thing. But spilling blood, only to then vacate hard-won gains on a whim and leave a vacuum that ended up making the problem far worse, was another.