Start by being nice to every person you meet. But if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"But the worst touristification is the life we moderns have to lead in captivity, during our leisure hours: Friday night opera, scheduled parties, scheduled laughs. Again, golden jail. This "goal-driven" attitude hurts deeply inside my existential self." - Taleb

Most problems in the world are perpetuated by bureaucrats (ignorant of complex systems) with no "trying to help". Put the State Department on sabbatical & see how peace will organically erupt. Also the past was more peaceful than claimed.

Routine is effortless. Most humans, alas, prefer to expend physical, never intellectual energy. Creating requires much, much more effort.