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OPENING STATEMENT

HOW LONG HAS THE CHALLENGE TO END MANKIND’S SUFFERING BEEN UNSUCCESSFULLY PURSUED?

THE PROBLEM
The social and economic systems we envision are interdependent and intricately woven together
with the societies of each nation through the earth’s vast ecological systems. Time and trials have
revealed that though we speak different languages, and the hues of our skin differ, we are
emphatically one and inseparably linked (regardless if we wish to acknowledge this truth or not).
All people require the same basic necessities: food, shelter, water, clothing, medical care, and
education.

The actions of one affect the whole, and our cumulative actions produce worldwide effects – some
good, some bad. Typically, however, our actions are unmeasured, which allows us to ignore or to
deny our destructive effects, and to disassociate the root cause. In a macro sense, we excuse our
actions through legislated rights, use the excuse of tradition, and report our abuses as necessary
acts for the interest of our nations. In a micro sense, we indulge our desires to the point of obesity,
purchase items we do not need, made by forced labor or low wage slaves which set idle in our
closets, in storage, or on display shelves.

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The 1.5 million nonprofit charities and social service agencies in the United States and the vast
number of charities throughout the world have yet to solve the cause of poverty, political and
economic instability, and social stresses that lead to poor parenting, intolerance, the mass killing of
civilians, and premature death due to disease, famine, suicide, revolution, and war.

Trillions in today’s dollars have been invested and donated in an attempt to end the various strains
of man’s afflictions and suffering. Thousands of people have been helped, yet the struggle of
poverty, hunger, disease, educational inequality, clean water, affordable housing, and economic
stability still persists in this, the twenty-first century.

Are we doing something wrong? Are the social and economic systems and policies we make use of

designed to fail? The answer to both questions is yes.

Our current condition is directly and ascertainably linked to the policies, laws, systems, processes,
and ideologies we devise, use, and enforce. Thus, the cause is man.

The majority of our problems are caused by our lack of love for self, other beings, and the earth;

which results from:

1 According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS)

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