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        Selfishness is a bedevilling quality of individuals, groups and governments. Within a family, it provokes conflict within itself and between it and other families.

        At the level of governments, it induces one-upmanship games which are played by cobbling up alliances, opportunistic or otherwise.

        In the Bhagavata, there is a wail by Mother Earth who says that people fight for pieces of earth when they require just a patch for burial or cremation.

        Of course, in the case of nations, conflict, according to Marxists, is a prime condition of progress but the trouble is that it feeds on itself to grow to minatory dimensions.

        Under such compulsive gameplans, the seed of conspiracy is sown. Mostly, it is like sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind.

        Efforts at winning goals are prefixed by espionage activities which become a competitive business with spies galore nosing mutually on themselves competitively.

        Technological upgradation has contributed to invasion of privacy at the hands of a ruler who is suspicious of his own people as evidenced by Americans under Bush.

        Satellites that offer communication facilities are liable to be misused more so when nations begin fighting each other not on earth but in outer space.