“In our time, which appears advanced technologically, our societies have not only failed to develop intelligently, they have devolved at a pace and in directions that oppose the seeming advancements of our material technologies, whose promise is always posed as a new road beyond the horrors and tribulations of our history.

This promise has been counterfeited by greed, wealth and power consolidation, the mandates of commerce, war, and prison-culture.

So it is that in 2018, women, children, the sick, the injured, minorities, the poor, the elderly and prisoners… are still seen by the opportunistic aspects of our commercial and political culture… as »commodities, rather than as the sources of life, the temple of our hearts and histories, and the spiritual essence of our humanity.

There is, as yet, no societal body with the power or momentum to amend this tragic catastrophe, yet we, as individuals, have it within our nature and purposive inspiration… to establish culture and relationships that not only demonstrate our awareness and love for all beings… but call our cultures to account on this matter, and to establish the social and political advancements we have for so long been denied.

And this we must attend, together, always… with and for each other and our world.”

— infraheard