Dilemma Solving

Is there any doubt that we live in parlous
times? Does not the world reel from
the presence of conflict, of appalling
blood-letting, capricious tyrants
endlessly exploiting every opportunity
to brutalize their dependent populations?
Is it not the case that dangerously
murderous ideologies roil world order
entrapping helpless and vulnerable
people in the death-traps of state
criminality, where the rule of law
surrenders to the irresistibility of 
fear? The world is stalked by the
sinister presence of psychopaths whose
psychotic manipulations end in tragic
atrocities leaving the world to mourn
its inability to impose order, peace and
security. Yet there are those whose
common sense aided by the wisdom
of years find solutions to all these ills.
And in the interests of full disclosure
and with the kind of modesty that such
declarations require, I speak of a quorum
of elders who among them represent the
collective wisdom of Solomon. Hear me
out; we meet not by design but through
happenstance daily in our neighbourly
perambulations, courtesy requiring that
we acknowledge each others' presence
then briefly halt to refresh one another's
attention to the proliferation of ills with
which this world abounds. And with 
consummate skill and wisdom we tease
out solutions to all world problems
solving them all, one by one. We can be
persuaded to make ourselves free for
consultation, singly or through committee.