Thanks for your response.

I didn't mean it to sound like you can't help anyone else besides yourself. I'm trying to make the point that an individual is responsible for his own spiritual growth and development and it is largely dependent on the choices he makes. You can of course help him by widening his choices. Further, when you help others it helps you to grow spiritually yourself.

I kind of just threw in the word 'spiritual' without any definition. By spiritual growth I simply mean that one acts more out of love than out of fear. The two fundamental emotions are love and fear and all the rest of the emotions stem out of those two.

So of course you can help others and actually I think we all have a responsibility to help others. The responsibility arises since we are all in this together or we are all one so to speak.

Is government corruption the biggest issue? It's something I've spent a lot of time coming to grips with recently so it's what immediately came to mind. You could also describe government corruption as just another symptom of the human condition. You might then conclude that the human condition is the biggest problem. It's possible that my ego is getting in the way by telling me I know more about government corruption than most people and I should 'set them straight'. Still, I think the information (on corruption) needs to be spread. I chose those two examples because no one is disputing the facts in those cases so one can't be accused of being a 'conspiracy nut' for sharing the information.

Often when I've shared information with family members about politics the result has been luke-warm. Judging by your response perhaps this particular information will be received more warmly than usuual.

It seems you've helped me to better define some of my own thinking so Thank You for that. I have certainly enjoyed the conversation. Hopefully I have been of some small service to you as well. I'd like to hear what you think about the links I mentioned once you've had a chance to look at them.