Sorry Bill and Marshall, from here sounds like reactionary resignation, an ORID journey conversation, but with no "D" and stuck in "I".
Do you intend forwarding a conversation with words of zero possibility and zero action?
Consider please a different "We"- same planet...
New facts, new wondering, different story, real people acting in ordinary human circumstances like this one from the Atlantic magazine:
Try Google "why Japanese kids can walk to school alone"
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