I don't think life is that great here. I'm a ethically responsible person living in a society that rewards greed and selfishness. The real problems that plague our nation and most of the nations around the world are too far below the radar of most to become mainstream. The majority of our population is too tied up discussing trivial things like gay marriage and drug prohibition to realise that were heading for major imminent disaster in a few short years.
It reminds me of this one early pioneer in airplanes. He built this one man glider and decided to fly it off a cliff. The cliff was extremely high and he couldn't see the ground. As he plummeted towards earth at break neck speeds he actually thought he was flying, that his miraculous invention to defy gravity had worked. In reality, he just didn't see the ground rushing towards him because he was so high up, and then he went splat. Our economies and everything that supports our marvelous modern world is that glider. Just because everyone doesn't see the ground rushing towards them, doesn't mean it isn't.
I think people are very naive, and have a lack of knowledge and blind faith in our flawed current systems.
The way I've come to see the world is that there are only three different types of people, sheep, wolves, and shepherds. A shepherd is a person who guides the sheep, takes what he needs, and makes it his priority to insure the well being of the flock to gaurentee that his own future needs will always be met. A wolf also guides the sheep but through brute force and fear, taking what they want when they want without regard for the well being of the flock. As the wolves flourish, they allow the sheep population to explode to provide the wolves with an ever increasing amount of food without regard for the damage to the environment. Eventually, all of the land gets over grazed until there isn't enough food for all the sheep and they start to starve. The sheep then start to see that the wolves promises of endless gluttony and greed were nothing more than lies, and seek out the shepherds. When they do this, the shepherds will tell the sheep that they can't help, there is no more land to graze upon, and they start making the tuff choice to mass slaughter the majority of the sheep and spread there bodies across the land to re-fertilize the grasslands. Then it's a mass effort to educate the remaining sheep to live with the land in a sustainable way, the ways and ideology of the wolves will be outlawed, and the shepherds will be in charge indefinitely.
So which are you, a sheep, a shepherd, or a wolf?
See I'm a shepherd, people like me knew this was coming for thousands of years. We could only sit and wait until the masses see the results of leadership of people who are wolves, and wait for the flock to come back. When I was younger I was a wolf, I preyed on the weaknesses of others for gain, or ease of life. However, I couldn't ignore the destruction that I created. I saw how I was leading people a stray, so I converted. Now I sit and watch people being lead a stray, ignorant to knowledge I and people like me try to spread. I realized that by trying to fight the wolves, I was prolonging the problem, now us shepherds are letting things take their coarse, waiting for the return of the sheep.