There’s a lot going on in many of the major countries in the world. I realized that today when reflecting on some of China’s recent policies and comparing them to all that’s happening in the US.

Even when asking someone from a reasonably well governed country in Scandinavia, they’ll reply that their government and nation has many problems. The intricate societal structures we have created seem to struggle to keep up with our population’s problems with organizing.

The only way it gets better is if more people take a vested interest. It requires caring about what is happening elsewhere on the planet, both in distance and time—for those of us subsisting beyond pure survival, will we act?