Tempting to look outside ourselves for something to blame.
It is neither some intrinsic quality of this forum, nor is it human nature, what little anyone here knows of that from the vastly skewed sample of a human lifetime in progress.
Some are here to change the foundations of human organization by helping to create and promote the tools of liberation.
Some people are here because they perceive an opportunity for personal gain.
These two motivations aren't mutually exclusive, but when the latter drives us forward, and the scales tip towards only thinking of the self, this is what the forum begins to look like.
Attached to the desire for financial independence we lose sight of our innate, natural independence; and the earth upon which it all rests, which is the only true wealth we will ever have. We know full well that when we die, we all will have the same amount of money.
Here today, are the lamentations of those who are suffering, and angry. Their clamor is infectious, and the dreamers and builders may go silent in reflection, and continue on quietly building their dreams, but we are all poorer for this silence.
To those who are tired and depressed from the toilsome road they may be on, take courage, turn your loss into grief, and your grief into beauty!
"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery