I don't think we get along too well in this World. I mean, you could spend a lifetime just trying to keep up with the daily events of one country/one religion/one group/one person taking out their frustrations on another, usually with termination of human life being the ultimate objective.

Going over the 20th century and the 21st now, we have become a cruelly efficient society when it comes to taking each other's life. Before that, it was likely a very personal affair to kill someone. Now, a button on ship, aircraft or tank can do the deed rather quickly. A Bomb sent 1,000s of miles can end it all in a snap. The improved mechanisms to eradicate humanity (and countless other living things) has dehumanize the whole proposition of what it is to be human.

The testing of missiles by the North Koreans recently didn't bother me as much as it should. Coming from the nation that dropped the A-bomb twice, it was not unfair to think that North Korea wants to have the same capability to destroy things from afar as the U.S.A. and a fairly large group of other nations can do.

What does it say when you can't be bothered with Diplomacy - as Bush implies generally about North Korea - when it comes to that capacity to send up a weapon that could take away life? Certainly it says, " We have that capability too. Don't be thinking we won't use them if necessary." (That's in good ole American slang...)

Getting along isn't something humanity concentrates much time on. Think about it: how much time do you really spend on actually talking to people you don't feel close to? Or they are different racially from you? Or they are less appealing in some (other) way from you? The answer is revealing of what is going on. People can't communicate well if the people across from them are 'different' or 'have nothing to offer.'

Until we actually get to real personal dealings that keep humanity together, we are bound to find ourselves looking up to the Heavens waiting for the BOMB to come down from the Hand of a Push-button Operator.