Eurydice Eve speaks with Abe Haak, multicultural linguist, education specialist, and polymath born in Jordan. We discuss feeling that we are headed toward a catastrophe. Major relations of trust have broken down since the New Millennium. Our institutions fan the flames rather than calm them down, as if programmed to create a permanent series of crisis that may justify extraordinary measures of intensified control. Their reach is global and we have no place to run away to. We are moving toward an impending apocalyptic clash. Who we were through the entire Agrarian era broke into antitheses in the Industrial era through an explosion of scientific and technological progress (which is our digital version of the industrial era) that exacerbates our quest for identity which we lack because we have lost agrarian stability. There will be a resynthesis that can come through a clash that will bring everything down and will rebuild. *Skepticism is the only posture of a true intellectual.* *Everything includes its opposite. That’s just how everything is.* *It is always the case that what we don’t know is greater than what we know.