I suppose that late at night, after a few beers, most of you have pondered such questions as "what is the meaning of life?" and "why are we here?". Well, as far as I can see, the last couple of decades have begun to provide answers to those questions - or, rather, an answer. That answer seems to be:

"To make a tiny minority of the world's population unimaginably rich at any cost".

And as far as our 'elected' governments are concerned nothing else matters or has anything like the same priority.

I don't know about you but I would prefer a different answer - one which gives me some confidence that the human race, as a whole, has some sort of long term future. But I suppose I'm just being naive and don't live in the 'real' (and vanishing) world ... ?