I’m actually an optimist, most of the time… I expect people to behave more or less nicely (the weather, not so much). But this one… also not so much. It’s just so much EASIER to tear things down that when the folks whose agenda IS to tear things down get into power, they get a whole lot more destruction per unit effort than the builders can possibly manage. Not to mention that a very small group can set off a (maybe only metaphorical) bomb that it takes thousands of people… working together… to recover from. And “working together” is hard work in itself.
Bottom line: I foresee another dark age. WITH tornadoes, floods, wild fires and all too probably “tactical nuclear strikes”. At this point, I hope to die before it gets so bad that I can’t keep my optimism at least PART of the time.
I’m actually an optimist, most of the time… I expect people to behave more or less nicely (the weather, not so much). But this one… also not so much. It’s just so much EASIER to tear things down that when the folks whose agenda IS to tear things down get into power, they get a whole lot more destruction per unit effort than the builders can possibly manage. Not to mention that a very small group can set off a (maybe only metaphorical) bomb that it takes thousands of people… working together… to recover from. And “working together” is hard work in itself.
Bottom line: I foresee another dark age. WITH tornadoes, floods, wild fires and all too probably “tactical nuclear strikes”. At this point, I hope to die before it gets so bad that I can’t keep my optimism at least PART of the time.