Time to reorient the world

Another successful international terrorist attack highlights the efficacy of world leaders and their combined containment/anti-terrorist policies. Terrorism appears to be a symptom of a world with unequal access for all humanity to the limited resources of the Earth. The tools of terrorism are the products of nations.

Make no mistake, every world nation is profiting from the sales of the very weapons terrorists use to kill innocents. It’s time to rethink people’s relationship to weapons. Humanity has experienced the Enlightenment, even so, never-ending wars, violent ideology and corrupt despots continue to fill contemporary headlines. It’s time to evolve to humanity’s next apex: the second Enlightenment.

Enlightenment deux would reorient the current political and economic paradigms to provide worldwide equality for all people, end to starvation, provide equal access to resources, end capitalistic consumerism as a basis for the economy and install a world government.

No individual asked to be born here, now, in their present circumstances. It’s time to really recognize the continuing struggle of life all humans endure. The human condition is indeed critical, exacerbated by compromised leaders and violent ideologues.

Steve LaCombe

Spokane Valley