Check from all sides?

When we were young and lived in a small township campus in Bengal, we would be scared of thieves. Thieves that would break into houses in the night, who would rob homes holding people at gun/pistol or knife point. Rarely did they kill - perhaps they had some values! Every time a robbery or theft happened, we would be scared. For a few nights. Life would then go back to normal within a month and all would be forgotten.

Times have changed. Now, it is no longer petty thieves and petty ammunition. And not just one's home. Credit cards, identities, bank accounts, computers, cars, organizations, public places, nations.

HAs any place been left out? We seem to be advancing technologically but so are the hackers, the law breakers, the attackers.

But has the world ever been safe? Battles, wars, crusades, ... history is full of them. Every land where man has set afoot. For as long as we have known, man has had a need to dominate, to hold power, to be in control, to reign supreme - at whatever cost - beg, borrow, steal, kill. We have created religion, race, caste, class, state, nation, organization, society, community...we have created rules to go with each of these...rules that are unfair, biased, unequal. For centuries, there has been discrimination of sex, caste, religion, race, class ... and what not.

We have not only abused humanity, we have abused the earth and the environment. We are creating global warming and pollution, we are killing and animals and birds directly or indirectly every second, we are clearing vast areas of forests every second. We are pumping chemicals into the environment every second.

What is safe in this world today - food? air? water? land? people?

Our lives are no longer safe.

We have checked ourselves from all sides and in all possible ways. How do we get out of this?