When will Me become Us?

There is always a breaking point, a time when change must happen.  I've been thinking lately how this would apply to humanity and so many people living for themselves and not caring how their actions affect others.  Redzilla got me thinking about this again with her post about the GOP and New Orleans.

Greed is so blatant now, from the president to people you meet on the street.  How much longer can it go on?  If you're religious, how much longer will it be allowed to go on?  Something has to happen.  We are going the way of Rome. 

What can be done, and how can we do it?   But the biggest question is this:  Why have we let it go on for so long?  I'm naive, I admit it.  But why is it that the ones who rape, pillage, and plunder are the ones in power?  "An empire remains powerful so long as its subjects rejoice in it." (Livy).

When my friends try to talk to me about politics, I joke that I stay in my little house in the woods and mind my own business.  At least I try to do that.  Mostly because I don't want to think about the evil running rampant in the world.

Back to my original point.  I believe that a time will come when mankind will live for each other and not just for ourselves.  I think and live this way, and that is why it is so difficult for me to understand greedy and dishonest people.  It makes no logical sense to me.