"I get the impression that many of these "Guests" are not even Americans".

Now nameless GUESTs get up my nose too - but that strikes me as a pretty irrelevant criticism. If someone had written "I get the impression that many of these 'Guests' are not even British" I'm sure people would be falling around laughing at whoever said it.

As for Executives and starving children and all that, I'd just say it's wrong to take and hold on to far more than we need when our brothers and sisters are starving.

And the only thing that stops us agreeing on that and acting on that is because we've been sold a whole bunch of modern ideas which started out being called liberal but have ended up being called conservative or progressive or even socialist in some places. Ideas to do with putting a distance between ourselves and others.

"Modern" in this context means quite a considerable stretch of history, but not that long in the lifetime of the human race. But if we don't recognise them for the poison they are that lifetime might not last that much longer.