No Change

To the Editor: 
I’ve heard that man has come a long way through the centuries. I don’t think so. I believe man has not changed, only his surroundings.
We still have war, famine, poverty, disease, homelessness, and “over-zealous” leaders who believe they should rule the world. Instead of stagecoach robberies, we have the high-jacking of planes and cars. Banks and businesses still get robbed. Homes get broken into. If we see someone on the street who has something we want, we assault them, or worse, and take it.
There is still greed, envy, poverty and famine. Betrayal and subterfuge. How easy it is to “throw someone under the bus,” when we don’t want to take responsibility for our actions.
On the plus side, there are those who only believe in doing their best for all concerned. Having compassion, a sense of duty and honor, patience, kindness, understanding and pride. There have been so many wonderful discoveries through the years. If only people would take one half the energy it takes them to do wrong, to actually think about the consequences of their actions before they do it, they’d be “doing something.”
We physically don’t “throw people to the lions” anymore, but we put them in danger each time we elect officials who are only in office to further their own “vain, glorious ambitions.”
So, would someone mind telling me what has changed? Why can’t we solve these problems? Why can’t we focus our attentions on what really matters, taking care of the people who served this nation, and I don’t mean sitting on their behinds knocking down any attempts to make this country better. By helping the elderly, and those who are struggling to make ends meet. Finding new ways to cure some of the health issues that plague our world. Giving a “hand up,” not a “hand out,” stop judging people by what they “don’t have,” or by the color of their skin. By making rules that only further the ones who “back you,” and keeping anyone from making their lives better who didn’t. By having “each other’s backs. I just don’t get it. People haven’t changed, if they did, “what a wonderful world” this would be.