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I
suppose I’m an optimist by nature, but I usually feel annoyed when I hear
people say things like, “Things are worse than they’ve ever been”, “What’s this
generation coming to”?
You
know the refrain. It’s always
negative. Things are getting worse and
worse all the time. Every generation
seems to say this.
I
always think when I hear this kind of talk “No, they’re not. Things are actually getting better. We don’t have slaves in this country any
more. We aren’t killing off the natives
so we can have their land. We don’t skin
people alive or burn them at the stake.”
We
are far from perfect, but it seems to me we are moving in the right
direction. I was reminded this week
again of the Martin Luther King, Jr. quote “The arc of the moral universe is
long but it bends toward justice.”
I
suppose it takes faith to believe this, but that’s what I believe, so I was
pleased this morning to see a couple of my relatives share a link on facebook
to a presentation by Bill and Melinda Gates titled “9 Reasons the World is
Better than Ever”. http://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/12-ways-the-world-is-better-than-ever-according-to-bill-and
I
also loved the low-tech method they used to present their topic.
