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After a lifelong study of history, the events evident in the USA at the turn of the 21st century might be discernible if the reader will now envision five concentric circles. In the smallest, central circle contains people who believe that American jobs should be reserved for American citizens and others who are legally in the United States of America. Those holding this attitude might support their contention by pointing to hardships endured by Americans who have been replaced in jobs with persons who are not citizens and did not enter the USA by officially recognized means. They might also point to numerous polities of history that were seriously disrupted by large numbers of people from other regions of the world. The Visigoths probably descended from Scandanavians and, after the Huns had driven them out of their homeland around 375 AD, they sought refuge in the Roman Empire. The Emperor Valens permitted that, but the Visigoths killed the Emperor and sacked the City of Rome, itself. In the Middle Ages, Egypt exploited slave soldiers known as Mamluks who were mostly Turkic peoples but also Greeks, Slavs, Georgians and other non-Egyptians. The Mamluks gained power over time until they overcame their Egyptian masters and established the Mamluk Sultanate which controlled Egypt and Syria. The Ottoman Empire needed more soldiers so it seized the sons of the people in countries it conquered, converted them to Islam and used them as slave warriors known as the Janissary Corps. There were only 20,000 Janissaries in the 1500s AD but over 125,000 in the 1800s. They gained so much power that, in 1807, they overthrew the Sultan. Then, of course, those people who are among the group represented by the small innermost circle of the five concentric circles can not, in all fairness, omit mention of what happened when many of their ancestors came to the upper northeastern portion of the lower portion of the uppermost continent of the Americas. In that area, those Europeans found five tribes that had joined into one confederation that was known as the "Iroquois." Their socio-political adaptation was so far advanced that they had devised a balance of power which was preserved to no small extent by their Great Law which prominently stated that "no Iroquois shall kill another Iroquois." The "explorers" from Europe commenced to turn those five tribes against each other and succeeded in taking over what was better and breaking it. Finally, those in the innermost of the five concentric circles are very likely to point out that a certain faction among the migrating masses of the early 21st century were involved in the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York City as well as atrocities in several foreign countries. Finally, they are apt to point out that several intelligence agency officials have warned that we all must take seriously the threats of foreign extremists who plainly stated that their sympathizers will be coming into the USA and other Western nations right along with the migrating masses. The second concentric circle that is immediately around the center circle is filled with people who believe that they see the BIG PICTURE. They know that the planet Earth contains untold millions of people--notably utterly innocent little children--who are suffering horribly. Many lack a roof over their heads and go for years without enough food to eat day after day. Those in the second circle firmly believe that there can NEVER be peace on Earth until everyone on the planet--which undeniably contains all the resources, skills and labor to care for all--has a fair share. And there is probably no limit to the examples that could be cited to support their point of view for is it not a demonstrable fact that crime increases with need--worldwide?

The third concentric circle contains those who believe that they see the BIGGER PICTURE. They hold that the free market system--which they contend is self-regulating--is the very best system ever discovered to serve the needs of humankind. They point back at historical times when, indeed, far fewer humans on the Earth had it as good as some people do now. They repeatedly draw attention to the fact that they provide jobs and build the advanced world from which billions benefit. They support those in the second circle who want to expand economics all over the world so that a fairer sharing can take place because, when there is a global economy in place, those in circle three can profit from transactions with billions rather than just with millions of customers.

The fourth circle contains a relatively small number of people who think they see the BIGGEST PICTURE. They also support the quest of those in the second and third circles who want to establish a global economy because that existing infrastructure can give rise the only econo-political system which--in their opinion--could possibly bring forth the dream of world peace. In their frame of reference, that system has to be a single world government with one human at its head--one of those in circle four.

The fifth and outermost circle also contains a small group of people who believe that they see the WHOLE PICTURE. In their opinion, all four of the other circles are subplots orchestrated by bit players who create the adversity which they, of circle five, have to overcome--while abiding by moral rules so that they will evolve from homo sapiens into homo spiritus--the true meaning of life as they see it. They contend that, to join them in circle five, it is necessary to pay attention to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John rather than to Adam Smith or Karl Marx.