answer:Thought- and shock-provoking article. I’m halfway through a Dalai Lama book which talks about being content with what you have or are offered (food, clothing, shelter) and devoting the rest of your energy to increasing happiness and decreasing suffering for others. Not that I’m living this by any means. In fact, I’ve really gone backwards in that regard in the past year. But I’ve also needed to regroup. My other thought is a degree of frustration or perhaps apathy I feel for countries mired with these problems when a good chunk of their misery is due to their unwillingness/inability to conduct better government.