It belongs to rich and poor, to persons of all races, to persons of all religions and no religion. It exists in every country and every culture. Whatever it is we are going through in this world, we are going through it together. We hear one another's cries. We are a part of one another's tragedies.
Ideas flash around the world with the speed of fiber-optic light.
The global economy reinvents society worldwide. At least a billion people lie essentially outside the world's cash economy. Another billion, perhaps, ride the crest of the cyber-revolution. Traditional national boundaries and governments seem to have less and less meaning to a world linked by rapid travel, instantaneous communication, and global manufacturing networks. But people can still die of starvation or rot in unemployment or be massacred by angry soldiers barely minutes from safety while we watch, powerless.