Storm before the calm

Here’s hoping the close of 2008 represents the storm before the calm, 2009. Conflicts of man vs. man and nature vs. man just won’t go away. Two facts persist. Man has never possessed a pacifistic, egalitarian core since Eden, but continuous calls for a change in his behavior persist over time. Secondly, the power of the government to make any pain go away does not exist, but dependency remains traditionally appealing. Both wishes (or resolutions), repeated year after year, will never be fulfilled. What hope for change remains? Something inner and individual; something outwardly unrecognized.