Is man powerless to fix a broken world? By: -

Chaos.

Anarchy.

Destruction.

All are the products of mans actions; the results of our desires. And I daren't call these desires pitiful for there must be substance in them - these desires form an integral part of a mans characteristics. So how can we right the wrongs when the wrongs stem from within us?

A long time ago, when human evolution had only begun its six-million-year journey, the homo-erectus roamed the vast plains of Africa. To assert dominance was not only a preferable characteristic, it was an essential attribute to sustain life and therefore reproduce. Our ancestors learned to take over land, to intellectually manipulate and to sustain this dominance. Modern humans are the same when it comes down to this intrinsic and instinctive level. Our need to rule is just as ever-present as our involuntary reflexes.

But it has changed form.

The pursuit to dominance has caused the creation of social classes where the proletariat serve the bourgeoisie. Turbulence and friction between these layers of social hierarchy is what causes cracks in our world; figuratively and literally.

But is it a bad thing? Think about it. Without these embedded characteristics, our ancestors would never have survived and so in a hypothetically "fixed" world, you wouldn't exist. So in response to RK Summers poem:

The many faces of Gaia are tainted with despair
What happened to our world? 
Did we break it? 
Have we lost the chance to fix it?                    

My dear, we never had a chance.

Also, there isn't a static and set ideal of perfection. It is in the nature of man to want more and so we never reach perfection. If, in a hypothetical scenario we were living in what we now consider to be a "non-broken world", the ideal of a better world would still exist and so we would still be in a broken land. And so therefore it is not just unlikely and improbable, but it is impossible to live in a non-broken, utopian land.

The best we can do is seek perfection from our imperfections. A fixed world would be pretty boring, anyway.