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There was a picture on the T.V. news…..
A grandfather in Iraq, dressed in a typical whitish robe and turban, leading an emaciated, small donkey down an unpaved, dirt road towards some mud huts called a “village”. Astride the donkey’s back was a grandchild of 8 to 10. Do you expect either of them to understand Welfare, Medicare, Democracy, T.V., or anything ? They are content to exist the way their fathers before them existed. They expect no changes…. just survival.
What do you expect from them?

If we propose anything different, do you expect them to magically understand?
If we propose Democracy, do you expect them to understand?
If we propose Industrial Education or Medicare or new Taxes, do you expect them to understand.

What do you expect from them?

The world has many people like them. They are reasonably content in their daily battle for “survival”. They have children, relatives, peace and reasonable contentment. They need very little. Do we have the right to invade them with the “Values of our Democracy”? Do we have the right to introduce the laws and regulations that make our Democracy viable?

What do you expect from them?

Is this situation throughout the known world? Suppose the “leaders” of this so called group, rise up and physically challenge the industrial world? What do we do? They “physically” invade us. What can we do to protect the way we live?

What do you expect from them?
What should we do? What can we do?

This is where we are, now!
Can we sustain the material unbalance? What can we do to mollify the situation? Can we “mollify” the situation without changing our own ways? What can we do?
We are not isolated in the world. Other Nations have a reasonable “industrial” society. Can we force them to join us in a “world” attempt to “mollify”?
Or do we physically attempt to protect our way of life?

We have a choice! We can try to maintain our physical and material advantage over the world by physical means or we can listen to the intellectuals who want “causes”…..world poverty, lack of water, greenhouse gases, etc. which they complain about but don’t offer “successful alternatives”…. (unsuccessful alternatives which produce less living standards for the industrial nations…..etc.) The voices of these intellectuals cause discordant actions and plans of the other side. Which side do you choose?