It has been a pleasure to follow your story of going to Bulgaria - and whenever the moment is just right I brag about you!   The questions you raise about size, power, politics and economics are often in my mind.   All I have as an answer is a cringe....  We have so much in the way of resources and opportunities yet we are still so greedy for more.   Your cousin Corwin came home from India knowing that he had won the human lottery by virtue only  of the place of his birth.  (Maybe it is all just accidental.)  That was a valuable lesson for him and I am pretty sure he doesn't know what to do about it either.  I keep believing that the way the Big Questions get put to work in our daily lives - choices to donate to this or that (even when we can't afford it) or not to buy some unnecessary Thing or to make some thing last longer instead of replacing it - these and other small daily actions are the manifestations of our intentions to abide fairly among our fellow humans.  There must be more to do but I am not the one to make those bigger choices.  Maybe you are.