What Was the World Made For?

The question here is remarkable in that it could have been posed at any time since humankind formed its first agrarian societies about 10,000 years ago, and that this concern has recently intensified with what has happened in Russia, China, Turkey, Brazil, Hungary, the Philippines, and, most recently of course, the United States.

To attempt an answer, I would say that, unless your religion requires you to choose one or the other, the world seems to have been made in such a way to be completely indifferent to what human beings do on it, to and for one another.

The collection of extreme wealth and power by a very few amoral people suggests that, regardless of what kind and intelligent people may have preferred, we are moving through a century that features slowly growing oligarchy and environmental ruin.

I offer this not as a prediction of gloom but rather as a challenge to us all.