One Old Lady

 Dear Humanity

Please come back to earth.

We know you have done a lot of damage to the world to say you are intelligent and good, but now we need to get back to the serious business of survival.

Our world is in danger of forgetting who we are and where we came from.

The rulers who are given power believe now only power counts. As long as those with the most money run this world, we shall be safe.

I think that has already proven to be not so. First is the acceptance that intelligence is bestowed on humans as long as they are white and male but the recent politics of America whom we admired for centuries have indicated a weakness. 

There are different kinds of intelligence I believe. Medicine, Science, Manufacture, Discipline.

In all fairness we are complicated by what we know and what we think we know. To make politics understandable. We have focused our intelligence on power because power is so watchable and so influential. Easy to believer that power is a public commodity. 

For centuries we created countries and leaders who claimed plots of land and followed our claims with displays which show our power, through wealth and war.

The power each country had was shown through conquest and wealth.

However there is another part to leadership which is empathy and ability to lead people. But it's not just power which can be shown by wealth and war and now we need to communicate with others even if we don't speak the same language.

Power hungry people don't always have the patience to learn about our cousins and neighbours and organize their world to keep out those they don't like or create societies that take away the power of those who threaten the rulers. Democracy was created  to deal with this tension. Civilization was built for the success of society.