Editor: Observing via the news the seemingly intensifying religious and racial unrest around the world, I’m increasingly convinced that humankind is overdue for an Independence Day-type alien invasion in which we, meaning all sub groups of the human race, will basically be forced to unite, attack and defeat the creepy invaders — the new, and hopefully last, Them — who are far from our humanoid type, let alone being a member of our Team Terran.

Unfortunately, though, it has to be asked: What will happen some five decades later, after all signs are long gone of the violent ET invasion we had victoriously overcome — when the politics of scale, to which we humans are so collectively prone, returns to the human-race fore?

Let’s not delude ourselves.

From the local municipal, to the regional, provincial or state, the national, international, intercontinental — with perhaps the greatest ‘difference’ being that between our religions and races — we, as a whole, can be relied upon to inevitably find reasons to differ and conflict.

Frank Sterle Jr.,

White Rock