It's amazing that we live in a time where people live longer than dreamed of before and we talk about health and nutrition disasters. We are living longer because of our superior nutrition!
It's amazing that we talk about man-caused climate change in the face of past measured climate changes much quicker and much more severe where man could not have contributed!
It is amazing that we speak of societal degeneration into conflicts over resources, ungovernable masses, violent chaos, when we live in the most peaceful time in history. When's the last time some tinhorn French dictator attacked every country in sight, killing millions on the European continent and becoming some sort of perverted hero for doing so?
As David Gelernter said eloquently and with tremendous factual support in his book 1939: the Lost World of the Fair. in 1939, in spite of peering down the gullet of a certain war that would cost a hundred million lives, in spite of the fact that a Chicago worker with a good job would likely not make enough money to eat every day, in spite of the fact that life expectancy was 20 years less than today, these people living in hell were forward-thinking, optimistic, creative and resourceful. Today we have accomplished almost the totality of their vision for the future, and we are thoroughly disheartened, whipped puppy dogs, afraid to bring children into the paradise in which we live. Makes me ashamed to be human. Certainly they would rightly be ashamed of us. Quitters suck!
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