Where’s Life There’s Hope: “Keep at It — and Don’t Forget About the Breaks” — The Relativity of Future Visions
“Yesterday’s future is today. Today is what will be the past tomorrow.” Words to that effect have been used before. These days are full of news that could make you start to feel desperate: War, apparently everywhere in the places that draw attention in the news yet, the Middle East, Europe (Ukraine); more places in unrest, in the US, Africa, Russia, South America, … at least.
The threat of a 3rd World War on the horizon?
A pandemic just behind us — and constantly rising prices because of the severe inflation.
Last but not least: The forecasts of the planet being near total collapse because of human-induced climate change.
Any reason to even try? Any other than a bleak outlook?
Yes, because when we look into history this is not really new(s)!
Every time a pandemic has raged around the globe, people started to become desperate; and with much more reason usually, too. There wasn’t the level of health care we do have these days. Advanced research and knowledge and logistics as well as information using mass media channels made global lockdowns possible!
Many lives were lost — but around the beginning of the 20th century when the so-called Spanish flu was defined for the first time, the numbers were much higher.
The 3rd World War was much closer in 1962!
The “Bay of Pigs” and the subsequent Cuban Missile Crisis about Soviet missiles in Cuba in the middle of the Cold War, when weapons to destroy the planet more than 10x times over where stationed in central places all around the globe…and yet: At the last possible moment, the people in decisive positions acted responsibly.
In the past we have seen a lot of forecasts and predictions about the future that still have to come true.
In other words: Where’s life, there’s hope.
Or, as I like to put it:
“Keep at It — and Don’t Forget About the Breaks”
