I've come to understand that

the morality and relational well-being of mankind cannot be reconciled through the means of politics.  This does not mean no government
is needed.

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved
    by the level of thinking that created them."

in any case, any chapter of history since the dawn of time ought
to suffice as either proof or evidence.

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You, good sir, should be nominated President of the f***ing world.

But to further add my 5 Cents, people in this world doesn't really give a shit about "them", them being in this case people further away than, say, 200 miles from your national border. If I, for example, were to choose between having 50,000 somalian children dying or my best friend pushing the daiseys... seriously, I think you can guess the answer.

We lack perspective enough to realize the good for us all, and that means that unless someone suddenly becomes... God... or something, we're not going to have any solution to the problems at hand, and most likely it will continue to get worse.

And as a matter of fact, Democracy and freedom isn't necessarily good things. I don't remember which nation it was, but apparantly someplace in Africa have begun using a free market and all of a sudden everyone's starving. Why? Because all the merchant charge I don't know how much for their goods. Democracy for the win!

I'm generally a pretty cynical guy, and although I DO think that a communistic utopia would be cool (I mean, come on, everyone gets what they want and there's no difference in status), it's I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E in real life. Greed and fear will rule that out.

The solution of all mankinds problem would be, if you employ Occam's Razor, killing off a lot of people.