Talk of the Town: The world we seek to understand
January 17, 2026
Comments on “The world we seek to understand” (Public Lives by Randy David, 1/11/26) via https://opinion.inquirer.net:
I fully concur that peace is fragile and must be consciously sustained. While the analysis correctly identifies great-power hubris as the primary danger, a crucial avenue for hope exists: the deliberate, positive use of social media by the younger generation.
Manny Ilao
History would reveal that the world order is subordinated to the EGO of a few world leaders. The institutions for global order developed by international statesmen of good faith become helpless when the EGO of a world leader turns hyper active. Until this time, as can be seen in Ukraine and elsewhere, there is no antidote to this human frailty!
FRS

When dev’t serves power, not the public