Chin Up

I'm hearing a lot of pessimism coming from friends, family and neighbors lately about the future. And I'm talking about people with a variety of political positions here. They don't agree on what the problems are, let alone how to fix them, but they all seem to agree that something is wrong.

I tend to see things a little differently. I don't deny there are things happening in this country that I don't agree with, but on balance I tend to think the world is becoming a better place, and for every thing we can quibble about with our country's direction there's a couple other metrics we can point to where things are improving.

Good to get some validation then in The Interpreter column in The New York Times this morning. In it, Max Fisher writes pretty persuasively that while democratic erosion in the States and elsewhere is a big concern, there are so many other trends worth celebrating right now. Cheers to that. 🍻