This book explores how culture, community, and democracy interact to form a society that values and supports each person, recognizes the connection between individual growth and collective humanistic development, and appreciates the environments we share as the foundation of our current and future existence. This is a very ambitious undertaking and necessitates an inter-disciplinary approach. And the timing could not be more important. This country is on the precipice of a new civil war. We are more divided than we have been since the American Civil War. For the first time in our history, in 2021, there was not a peaceful transfer of power; one of the two major parties in this country has concluded that the current President is illegitimate; constitutional norms are threatened and there are signs that attempts to upend these norms will continue. The title is a bit stark and hopefully unnerving. However, we are at a crossroads in this country. We need to decide if we are going to endure the discomfort of a substantive, yet peaceful change, or experience the trauma of a violent transition to whatever comes next. If the former option prevails, we will likely transition into a future that is more inclusive, just and fair. If the latter option prevails, it is as likely that we will either change for the better--or surge into totalitarianism. I am forever optimistic, but also guarded. Human agency is relevant to the extent that we desire that our lives have relevancy. Too many of us settle and accept the world as it is. Too many reject the world as it is but are unwilling to take the time or effort to build a better one. We are the history we make and either we make our own history by working together or we will be consumed by those who do. Hopefully, this book will provide some perspective and guidance for what it takes to achieve a more just, equitable, humanistic, inclusive, and ecologically balanced future.