It’s been a long two plus months since US voters rather narrowly sent the stupidity and meanness of the past administration to the dustbin and it has been excruciating to watch the slow motion transition as Israeli war criminals used the time to really pound the Palestinians of Gaza and create more suffering and rationale for retribution.  The cycle of violence is really not that hard to understand, is it?

But now the US has a new guy in charge.  We wait for him to be the change he has talked about.  Some of his rhetoric suggests that he is refusing to consider the big picture of the Israeli conflict with the Palestinians.  That conflict has roots in the way that more industrialized cultures have treated less industrialized cultures over eons.   Can that change?  Is there a possibility of something new under the sun?  I think the answer is yes.  And I think we create that change by breathing life into a discussion about the danger of intolerant, hierarchical philosophies of being human on a small blue planet. 

Next up, the value of less industrialized cultures.