Things Are Getting Better All the Time

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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.