Toll of Israel-Palestine crisis on children ‘beyond devastating’ [news.un.org]

The world is on fire, literally and figuratively [I myself have been inexplicably angrier over last few years]. Collectively, we humans are hopelessly prone to the politics of scale and differences, both real and perceived, especially those involving color, nationality, race and religion.

It's quite plausible that if the world’s population was somehow reduced to just a few city blocks of seemingly similar residents, there’d sooner or later be some form of notable inter-neighborhood hostilities. Still, as individuals we can resist this.

In regards to seriously flawed yet normalized human/societal nature thus behavior, the late sociologist Stanley Milgram [of Obedience Experiments fame/infamy] stated: “It may be that we are puppets — puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.”