Japan's looking inward after Trump and America set a Precedent.

 There is a set of humanities instincts that support war. And a set that doesn't. WE openly envied Japan's post-war Constitution. But America's recent sowing of power for the sake of power and then the implication some unsubstantiated philosophy that might makes right has obviously portrayed our unreliability to the world. An assertion of "America First" appears as challenge of superiority to all other nations and philosophies and forces division over cooperation within many of one time allies. The civilized world is being pushed to "take care of the home team" first. WE appear to be what many saw us to be, "The Ugly Americans". It's a pity.

Humanity, Heal Your Self

I feel that we have a problem, that we are blessed with life and life is a curse when it is self-reflexive. WE must aide evolution to change us, change us into long-lived, socially motived, with less fear, less horror, competition, war, inhumaneness. We must cure the flaw of evolution by conquering death and growing secure in working out our own motivations, our own surviving. Evolution has automatically gone through the molecular reproduction, then the cellular reproduction, then the body reproduction, and today it stops there. The next step requires reason, courage, science, to make and guide us to quit competing among the species, but to make a more perfect species, a less vicious and dangerous individual, but a more insightful, confident, species that does not go gently into that good night, but plans, designs, makes artifacts, like AI with better information processing, better body and form and functioning life-forms, overmen, Übermensch, asymptotically immortal species. Humanity, heal yourself!