You are so right in your view of wether people are really bad. If I could have given more than 50 claps, I would have.

I respond similarly to any discussion about racism and war and how this world is going to hell.

I turn around and say, "Hey, as far as I know, most Muslims, Jews and Christians are simply normal people with families, who just want to live their quiet lives. And so does the rest of us who are not religious. WE...don't want any war. Just because of our governments playing games and those few people reacting in an extreme, doesn't mean everyone wants destruction. In the end even those people mostly react out of some kind of fear, lack of love, lack of acknowledgement..."

Sure, what is frustrating is the apathy of many people. Or the need to follow someone else blindly. That can be dangerous, to them as well as others perhaps, but it's not malicious intent.

Hence why I would like to empower better education of our kids. It's the ignorance and half-knowledge which is the actual dangerous thing. What is dangerous is us forgetting the lessons of the past. And that can happen so bloody quickly.

There is the frustration that people can be unhappy with a system and yet are unable to actually move to make a change. That's not surprising. Even making a change needs to be learned, trained, exercised on a regular basis.

France is probably the last country keeping the habit of resistance alive. And it's not pointless. Perhaps in the past all those many traffic strikes seemed unnecessary to us, but when the time came to stop unfair tax to be implemented, they knew how to fight for it, right away, for months...and won without harming their own people (just making life a bit painful for the rich ones, not getting electricity for a while, LOL).

Everything needs to be learned, trained, become a good habit. We are all intrinsically lazy by nature, it's normal. But we are not intrinsically evil or bad, you are right, Martin.

And if I'd have to try to pinpoint the centre of all problems, I would say it's down to (artificial) scarcity.

Because let's face it - there is absolutely no need for it any longer. Not today.