Wherever one turns, someone is exploiting someone else in order to gain some advantage in the bruising battle for material, psychological and religious power. 

It looks as though there is nothing or no one of substance, able or willing to stand-up for genuine justice, fraternity and a humanitarian vision of the intrinsic oneness of the family of man. Something broad and powerful with which to seriously counteract the downward spiral.

When and if such heroic voices do manage to break the surface, the architects of control move in to silence them.

In spite of the pulling down effect of living under the mantle of an odiously oppressive top down regime – I don't believe it is terminal.

Mankind is amazingly resilient; all the more so when its back is pressed up against a wall.