
Even within a single nation, the problems confronting the general population are, at best, addressed by stop-gap measures which politicians dream up. Most people, as long as their daily lives remain relatively normal go on about their business until the day they die, seeking not so much permanent solutions to their dozens of problems as mere distractions from them - alcohol, drugs, entertainment, you-name-it. Were this not the case, we would be living in a man-made Utopia, no?