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30
Dec
2018
Here we are -- like deer on a road, transfixed by the headlights of 2019 bearing down on us. I don’t know anyone who’s looking forward to the new year.
Is it just me? Or is this a pervasive view in North America?
Climate change, hurricanes, floods, droughts, volcanoes, tidal waves, crashing stock markets, meaningless mass murders, price-gouging pharmaceutical companies, trade wars, toxic chemicals, crumbling infrastructures, refugees, terrorists, nuclear re-armament, computer hackers -- the news is as bleak as a winter day. And I haven’t even mentioned the White House yet…
The world, it would seem, is going to hell in a handcart.
What I am feeling, I think, is the death of optimism.
Categories: Sharp Edges
Tags: optimism, pessimism, taken for granted, unexamined