What time is it?

[jesm]

The time? Seems to me to be about five minutes past midnight. Our world is beset with forces and challenges that, so far, have proven beyond solution and appear to be growing in threat. I bring zero confidence that the present elected leadership, in most areas of the world, will make any positive difference.
Challenge #1 is the depressing inequalities in economic well-being that are so prevalent around the world. Yes, we respect capitalism and the big benefits it brings to a minority of the worlds population, but when a majority of people have inadequate diet, retched housing if you can stretch the definition, and life spans from the 1800s I sense disruption.
Challenge#2 results directly from #1. The planet is seeing a massive migration of peoples from every part of the globe seeking to better their lives by leaving their ancestral homes to follow the money. This happens daily involving TENS of millions of people and will continue unabated until Challenge #1 is addressed in some fashion.
Challenge #3 is undeniable climate change and mankind's overall abuse of his home. Not surprisingly it feeds Challenge #2. It really is OUR problem to tackle as our prosperous capitalist society is the principal contributor to environmental degradation. Anyone here think the several billion souls in the developing world are willing to miss out on all those wonderful, polluting inventions that we currently enjoy? Not gonna happen, so any changes to better protect the home place must originate with us.
I am doubtful that American Exceptionalism ever really existed, but if it did the current crop of Americans, my generation principally, lost the formula in the 1960s and now overall the country performs somewhere below “adequate”. The Trump explosión is Exhibit 1. The nation employed some morally dubious tactics as it sought to develop, with our economic foundation built on the near extinction of one race, the indigenous, and the enslavement of a second. This long term cancer of white preference and superiority has set us up for failure, as the new world speeds past and we can only wave.
Not sure if this even pertains to your original message but all this quarantine time provokes deep thinking and brings concern for America.