Emmerson:
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. Emerson

It is a sad sad day when we realize that those who run and govern our world do not believe or operate by a single word in Emerson's quote above.  Those who live by Skull and Bones "Illuminati" and such controlling entities in the stratosphere of world politics and control factions.  It is a wonder that our union exists at all or that "freedom" exists even to the mediocre degree to which it does today. 

Many of us think we are free yet we are still slaves.  Slaves to a world that would be so much better if these people were not at the helm.  But they are and there is not much we can do about it but fight them at what ever level we are capable of.

The sadness deepens when we realize how subject everyone we know, including ourselves, is to temptation.  The temptation of money power is psychologically the need to satisfy insecurities and to quiet their demanding screams.  The old saying "if one man  can take something from another man, he will" goes unquestioned.  To steal, pillage and to rape the land, the environment and to subjugate other cultures into slavery is typically human then what ever humanity gets for its ways is appropriate compensation for what they gave in life.  I would not blame the earth one bit if it disposed of humanity entirely to protect itself from our insecurities and stupidity.