What’s to be done? In April a group of militants – Boko Haram terrorists – raided the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, and took with them over 230 female students aged 16 to 18 who had registered for the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination. According to Boko Haram spokesmen, these girls were taken away because the Nigerian government did not properly encourage traditional Islamic education. It is understood that under Islamic Law, girls are to be married from the age of 9. Some scholars and Senior Clerics do not agree with Boko Haram’s interpretations and have condemned the mass kidnapping. Notwithstanding such censure, the terrorists have forced girls into marriage, and slavery, since such is favored by the Prophet. A month passes by and the Nigerian government is unable to give details as to the number of girls taken away or their place of imprisonment. In a larger picture, the idea of Progress appears fragile and not well understood. At each step of the way toward the goal of Progress and its benefits, we delude ourselves as to the attainment of such an aspiration. Progress is much more complicated than material improvements to systems. It is the communal Soul that needs improvement in the way of awareness. The present dysfunction on the part of tribal, national and transnational leaders is such that anarchy vies with regression, closing the doors to progress. Religions can do nothing because they insist on the uniqueness, exclusivity and exceptionalism of their tenets, dogma, rites and rituals. Teilhard de Chardin’s nöosphere is a far-off goal. Instead of kneeling at the altar of Ayn Rand, the bloggers would do well to re-visit Teilhard’s visions of the phenomenon of man and our relationship with the creator. Recent scientific discoveries attempt to make sense of the first moments of Creation. The explosion of energy is incomprehensible. While it happened billions of moments ago, the path back to that moment was traveled in the past hundred years. Proof that if we set our hearts and minds to the question, answers are possible and sufficient to satisfy the curiosity of the moment. What is missing is the understanding of the dynamics of exploding populations on systems designed to be sufficient for finite situations.