Reminds me of all the WV politicians, Dem and Repub. alike during the current election season who don't dare call a spade a spade for fear it will cost them the election.

And who can blame them. No easy answers, given the ego and ethno centrism of the average human being who bothers to vote. If one can't get elected one can't vote to incrementally change policies.

No easy political answers, but what is happening in many other countries across the pond, is a foreshadowing, I fear, especially when I read about the absurd but dangerous and still not dealt with actions by "militia" in the case of the cattle rancher/antisocial/narcissitic Bundy of what is to come in our own country, much less stable than it was at one time. If I didn't have a young son, Nephews, neices and grand neices I maybe could stick my head in the sand and just worry about my old survival into what I hope is not a lengthy old age.

My little rant may sound like thread drift, but it isn't.

As a species, we have run out of earth. As a species we have evolved, with tremendous success, to incorporate and include many conflicting drives and instincts and perspectives that incorporate in varying degrees our complex reliance on individuality and social community. All of that depended on sufficient physical space and resources for it all to balance out in the end. Always dependent on winners winning in some ways, and also always dependent on altruism and cooperation and accommodation in others.

Space is all used up. Resources are about to get all used up.

Now what?