How Humanity Has to Change

Abstract

We confuse achievement with the acquisition of gaudy bling and celebrity fame, and while history rarely repeats itself, it does tend to rhyme. We do not hold our politicians to reasonable standards, especially when they show a distinct lack of interest and perhaps a failure of courage when it comes to considering their country's decline. They do not define themselves by the murder rate, the rape rate, the percentage of long-term youth unemployment, number of teenage pregnancies and low rates of educational attainment yet accept that the most marginalised live in the worst urban and rural environments. They seem beholden to donors and to large-scale vanity projects. They create the financial crises and carve out a growing chasm between the rich and the poor.