Each person in every society has a moral obligation to try to see how
their own society and the international structure as a whole affects
each other person in every society, the good effects we like to 
concentrate on and are often told about almost exclusively, as well as
those who are negatively affected by them and whose suffering has
earned them the right not to have their viewpoints as well as their
very lives marginalized as simply the unfortunate price that must be
paid for the greater good. If we do not try to be better than that, to
try to incorporate their views into how we might prefer to see 
ourselves, we are in a sense denying their truths, their experiences, 
their lives and their realities, and diluting the validity of our own 
points of view.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

People's lives are attempts to transfer something, their experiences, 
their potential, into something concrete which will have existence 
outside of them or beyond them. A book, a painting, a formula or theory,
a philosophy, a monument or sculpture, a building or park, their 
children, an heir philosophical, spiritual, or biological, all of these
are attempts to pass on something inside yourself to exist outside of
yourself for others, and which may survive beyond yourself. To see it as
attempts at immortality is unduely coarse and vulgar. It is not wanting
to let something good within you die with you or be forgotten 
unnecessarily. That is how to view it in its best light, though maybe 
not realized or always thought of in that context at the time by 
everyone, but equally how it can be seen by anyone toward anyone else's 
attempted achievements. The irony is that which is wished to be passed
on can never be forgotten or lost anyway, nor is any externalization of 
that potential any more real than the potential of itself.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Take the view of philosophers all throughout history. Those who run the 
world always have been and usually will be the most corrupt and amoral
bastards humanity can produce at that given moment in time. If you want
it ever to be any other way, get over any illussions you have about how
it should be otherwise now, and do your best to work with what you have
got and make them see a little beyond their self interests and easy
indulgences. Don't believe Aristotle liked Alexander, but liked the
opportunity to make him slightly less of a bastard, and by extension,
many others lives slightly better. And whenever possible, choose the
lesser of two evils. Rarely are any fairly presented with even that
limited amount of choice, and rarer still given any good alternatives.
Not choosing at all when given the chance means the worst will ALWAYS
prevail.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Elections are the parts of democracy people get to see and convince them
they have a say in their governance. How those choices are selected to
be put before them are determined by non-democratic means by economic
interests. Which choices are given as well as how many inevitably frames
their outcomes. Those who can influence these without having their hands
being seen directly control governments. Leaders are reduced to 
personalities who can best push an agenda, and those personalities know
they will only get to act the part, unless they dare to believe they got
there on their own merits alone. The more willing they are to follow
"advice", the more inevitable their rise to power becomes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Cultural bubble (- that) of nation's mass media diets of information
narrowed focus of awareness of what is considered of the "outside"
world to be important or relevant, as determined politically or by
their owners (' influence over choosing editors of like mindedness)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

There is an insulating effect or a temperance wall people build around
themselves in how they view other peoples' problems in relation to their
own. They refuse to accept on an emotional level that others can be
significantly worse off than themselves, for that might minimize or
trivialize their own problems. Whatever position or level in a society
they possess, though they know others have it worse and would not wish
to trade places with them, they also on the other hand, say "but I have
it bad too, and no one is looking out for me either, so I am just as
needy as they, and probably just as deserving of help, if not more so,
than they are." Not avoiding falling into that trap is where humanity,
the humanity of humanity, always fails.