I was reading someone going on about how horrible the world is, and all the challenges we face. And you know what? I don’t buy it. Our ancestors spent most of their time as prey animals, so attached to vision as the primary sense, that the dark was a special kind of dangerous. When God was handing out goodies, we showed up late, got almost no fur, no claws, sorry teeth and digestive tracks, and had to make do with thumbs, and very expensive brains. Now look at us.

We live, here, in America, as the 1 percent of the 1 percent of the 1 percent of having it good compared to everyone who came before us. We have things today that kings did not have. Clean drinking water? Heck, we have so much of that we can bother to have our own personal Hanging Gardens. We can live after our teeth fall out. Heck, we get to live very sick and injured. Try that with hunter-gatherers.We have had members walk on another world. We can harness energy is so many ways that reduce our need for physical toil. Being fat is a problem! 100 years ago, no one would have thought that possible (maybe not 50 years ago). I am sitting her typing with ice in my drink on a day that is almost 90*. The air around me is 72*. Out species no longer

We have had members walk on another world. We can harness energy is so many ways that reduce our need for physical toil. Being fat is a problem! A century ago, no one would have thought that possible (maybe not 50 years ago). I am sitting here typing with ice in my drink on a day that is almost 90 degrees. The air around me is 72 degrees.

Our species no longer has to fear the dark, because we can make it day. We are the top of the food chain now. All around the world, large animals know to leave us alone (if in numbers). An alien may not have bet on the sorry primates wandering around 2 million years ago.

There is no time in history better to have been alive than right now.