Puzzle, conundrum, whatever: How to turn all those individual energies and motivations, born of brighter or dimmer perceptions of the reasons for their distress, that sum to something a lot greater than the bare sum of their parts, into better, fairer, more decent lives for all of them? Hard, so hard to do, when there are so many who would turn the parts against the whole, for crass personal advantage, or for all those silly-at-a-distance tribal un-reasons?
Puzzle, conundrum, whatever: How to turn all those individual energies and motivations, born of brighter or dimmer perceptions of the reasons for their distress, that sum to something a lot greater than the bare sum of their parts, into better, fairer, more decent lives for all of them? Hard, so hard to do, when there are so many who would turn the parts against the whole, for crass personal advantage, or for all those silly-at-a-distance tribal un-reasons?