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Elizabeth Tiller (Beth)'s avatar

The indigenous peoples appear to have responded to their attempted destruction with a sincere forgiveness and desire to share their love of the earth and all her creatures (us included) with a society gone astray. The native capacity for forgiveness is humbling indeed.

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Richard M. Ellis's avatar

Couldn't agree with you more, Steven. Since 1493 there has been the continuous and insatiable desire for wealth at the expense of vast numbers of humans. Hubris and greed are more prevalent today than with the royals of the15th and 16th Centuries and the robber barons of the 19th and 20th Centuries. We have grown scientifically, but very little as humans. Because wealth is being hoarded by the top 1% of the world's population, vast majorities are struggling to survive. We can land a used rocket on a pad in Florida, but we can't seem to care for our poor and disadvantaged, even in America where there should be no poverty. I am an optimist by nature, but it is getting so much harder as I watch neighbors and others who should know better supporting a wanna' be dictator, and he just may accomplish his goal. We'll see in a few weeks whether we may be able to continue toward a more equal society, or be prepared to go the route of ancient empires of the past, destroyed from within, again by hubris and greed.

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