The World, Explained
I am facetious about the title but only half-way
I had no plans to post anything today but this just wrote itself. It is about the anatomy of world history, about the role of mistakes, and about our power to heal.
Since time immemorial, there has been good and bad. Since time immemorial, some people have tried to live in harmony, and some tried to steal.
Most people in the world today do their best, and usually think that they are on the good side—whether their actions help or hurt.
A relatively small number of people consciously commit (or try to commit) dark and cruel tricks, and usually, those people are obsessed with control, have high ambitions for money and power, and are concentrated in areas where access to the arm-twisting of others thrives (politics, high-titled theology, finance, etc.)
They are in influential corporate rooms. They are high-end politicians. They are in activist groups. They are the trickster women trying to swindle gullible rich men of what they got. They are “religious lead…
