  A depressing spectre is currently haunting our planet.
This spectre is Third World poverty.
This is the most destructive, urgent and bewildering paradox facing our globe.
While a small minority of humans on the planet live in a more or less fantasy world of material prosperity and comfort, the overwhelming majority are experiencing a highly uncertain life in a most painful day to day existence.
Human history of human greed has created two separate worlds with two realities of “haves” and “have nots”. There are two separate realities of privileged and under-privileged humanities. The well-fed European, Japanese, or North American, watch this dramatic spectacle through the safe widescreen of their home TV, in their private media entertainment rooms.
With only the mildest curiosity, the self-satisfied watch the underfed die, as a daily and ritualistic eschatological spectacle.
They watch the various gruesome scenes of the latest African civil war, with much less interest than the latest “Star Wars” episode.
This is typically characterized by a vague sense of awareness of the unfolding drama thousands of miles away, yet cushioned by a comfortable detachment, or even worse, a callous apathy.
In this way the “developed” nations wash their hands from any culpability, or even guilt, surrounding their responsibilities of being at least partially implicated in this drama.
The most clear examples of this "comfortable" apathy in recent years, are the global inaction to the Rwanda genocide; and the present apathy to the horrors occurring in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in Northern Uganda, and in Southern Sudan.
But some of us have Vision.
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