Hi Alex,

Only time for a short note. In the big picture, all organisms on earth have been struggling for billions of years with the single most significant problem of providing raw materials for growth (food).

Humans are the first species to have solved that problem. (Since about 1948, largely because of freedom, humans have consistently produced more food than they can eat, even though they don't distribute it fairly -- instead, they feed most of it to other animals, or simply waste it.)

Having solved that problem, we are poised as a species to take on the next-most-serious problem we face: man's inhumanity to man. This shows up as war, crime, and economically caused poverty.

Whereas rampant hunger and starvation prompted all our forebears to concentrate on inventing agriculture, fertilizer, farm machinery, and all the rest, the "racial and religious problems, in terroristic acts,in riots, in government versus militia clashes, in illegal immigration, powerty, etc." should similarly prompt modern people to find solutions to this, now-most-significant, problem. I have faith that we will solve it.

Warm regards,

Paul