I, too, have been struggling with this for a very long time. When you see friend, neighbours, or even families turn on each other or sensless killings of innocent people becaus they have the wrong name etc. it makes one sick.

You see greed everywhere and people not thinking of the consequences of their actions for other people or the environment. There is some good happening but, as for many others here, it has not really restored my faith in humanity.

I don't know what it is...I ascribe it to something going terribly wrong in the evolutionary process...it seems like we're de-evolvin...I agree with 2quilt (and many analysts) that fight for resources as basic as clean water and food will cause awful wars where many will die being denied these basic human rights. There will also be environmental refugees and that will lead to fighting over arable land etc. I think this is very much the truth and it totally makes us feel powerless. And sadly, I think it has pretty much always been this way, with the exception of the depression era and post-WWII, where in the aftermath of those events there was the rise of the welfare state and concern for human rights.

2quilt, I also have a feeling that I won't be around that long, and feel exactly the same way, with all of this, who wants to go on?