Even though his son Hersh is never coming back, Jon Polin wants us to help remind the world that we still have 101 hostages in captivity. The families want us to know that all the powerful and famous people they traveled the world to meet, didn't actually go out of their way to help at all. Some were even afraid to go public since they would risk losing followers ....

Do we understand what a sick world we live in? Some powerful influencers could have tried to help save the hostages, but were more concerned with how their followers would react. They were more concerned with their image than young people being tortured in a dark tunnel somewhere beneath the ground.

This is the point where we need to understand that something is seriously wrong with our world.

This is the point where we need to understand that something is seriously wrong with our world.

We need to understand what we're dealing with.

We need to understand human nature and how it works.

On the one hand we have these monster terrorists who have completely lost every shred of humanity. I'm not justifying ANYTHING they have done of course, but we can blame it all on their toxic environment of hate, education, upbringing, brainwashing - call it whatever you want. No one is born that way.

But now let's take a closer look at our own environment. Are we living in a society that formats us to be good to one another, or just the opposite? To mainly only look out for ourselves?

Are we living in a society that formats us to be good to one another, or just the opposite? To mainly only look out for ourselves?

This heartbreaking excerpt from the TIME article below, about how these poor families did the rounds to all the most important and powerful people in the world - and no one lifted a finger to help them. But I'm sure the VIPs felt amazing afterward. I'm sure they ran to tell their friends and families how they had done such a huge thing meeting with the families of the hostages.

When we look at all this objectively - it all comes down to the human ego that makes very simple calculations every moment of every day - What will be better for my own benefit? What won't benefit me? They may pretend to be considering their options but people who have reached such height in society need to think if it's worth risking it all to do something for the benefit of someone else.

That in a nutshell is human nature. We are all mainly concerned with ourselves.

It's time for us to recognize what's really going on.

It's time for us to understand what all this drama is really about - for us to start understanding our true nature and how it works.

If you take an honest person and place them in an environment of thieves, they will eventually learn to steal.

The influence of our environment is such a powerful thing - we need to start being more aware of this.

And we especially need to understand whether we're in a place that influences us to be good (benefitting others) or not so good (only benefiting myself or worse, harming others) - that we behave the way the crowd is impacting us to behave.

So we're not as independent as we like to think we are.

I want to share this excerpt below from the article about how these families schlepped around the world to meet these useless VIPs -

Excerpt from Time Magazine >> As the Families of Murdered Hostages, Our Message to People in Power Is Simple: Act

"For 328 days, many of us traveled the world and met politicians, diplomats, business titans, celebrities—people with power. They made promises, nodded, held our hands, cried with us, hugged us tightly…and then failed to deliver results. Many of us circled the globe and sat with religious leaders, ambassadors in the halls of the United Nations, former Presidents and First Ladies. So many people with power in the biggest companies in the world said they would be with us until our loved ones came home alive. We held meetings, openly and discreetly, in places like Davos, Washington, Moscow, London, Sofia, Budapest, and Geneva.

Celebrities met us in secluded rooms but asked that we never acknowledge publicly that they did so; they feared losing followers. Leaders of humanitarian aid organizations, including the International Red Cross and the World Health Organization, claimed they would like to intervene but could not figure out how. Two Muslim clerics confidentially assured us, wrongly, that our loved ones would be okay because harming hostages violated Islam; but they and too many other religious leaders were publicly silent. More than one of these many people with power assured us that the hostages would survive, that their return was only a matter of time. Some said our loved ones were suffering but surely not dying.

Why has the United States, the world’s strongest superpower—with leverage on all the regional players in this conflict—failed to deploy that power sufficiently and creatively to produce a hostage release and a resolution to this war?"

Two hundred fifty one hostages from 39 nationalities were stolen from their lives and from the world on Oct. 7. Why did the Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Foreign Ministers of those nations never stand, arm in arm, on a global stage and demand their release? Why are the names of the 101 hostages who remain in captivity not on the nightly news in countries around the world? Where is the global outcry calling for their release? Where is the condemnation from the religious and spiritual leaders of the five faiths of the hostages still being held? Where is the economic and diplomatic pressure on Hamas and its sponsors? Why are NATO member countries and U.S. non-NATO allies continuing to operate with favored status while failing to save lives, including those of U.S. citizens? Why has the United States, the world’s strongest superpower—with leverage on all the regional players in this conflict—failed to deploy that power sufficiently and creatively to produce a hostage release and a resolution to this war?" TIME