So few with much too much to the point of obesity and obscenity and many too many with so little, to the point of starvation and extreme poverty. Towers of Babylon thrown up everywhere. Vendors of empty words peddle unnecessary stuff and duplicitous double-dealers engineer fraudulent financial schemes. A sacred world desecrated by filthy lucre and garish quests for power. Respect for moral authority and ethical behavior are nowhere to be found. Not one word of truth is spoken clearly, loudly and openly. Caring and sharing are anecdotal, token experiences.

Without realizing until it is too late to respond ably, the human community has evidently become ensnared in a condition of bondage of its own making. Unfortunately, during the past 8 long dark years, too many leaders of the human family have been adamantly intent on ruthlessly maintaining these precise conditions of subjugation, even though such conscious determinations have mortgaged and threatened their childrens' future and are likely to lead the children to confront some sort of colossal ecological disaster which their greedy leading elders have surely perpetrated.

Thanks to new leadership, new values and a new direction provided by President Barack Obama, perhaps necessary change is in offing.