For rational thinkers the world is in a funny configuration. Poor people are attacking other poor people. Many of you would think, “Why aren’t poor people attacking rich people instead of going where little material gain exists?”
Have the rich learned the lesson of the French Revolution and become good at focusing our want and wrath on those of lower rank? Promoting fear and racism so their stealing can go on behind closed political doors and above the common understanding of how citizens should fare in a bountiful democracy?
There is some hope. Knowledge has provided the broom with which to sweep our angry, outdated gods and their destructive tribalism into history’s waste bin, where they belong, with hope the idea of brotherly love somehow survives. Unfortunately, this idea is not prominent in Mother’s recycling game plan.
You have to look deep to find that cooperation is a basic human survival instinct and that conflict does nothing but waste resources, concentrate wealth, and provide a harsh method of controlling population and politics. People working together, accepting and profiting from diversity, appears to offer a more rewarding plan for the majority of us. Think unity, fairness, compassion and compromise — and the world we are handing off.
