I dunno any more who I'm paraphrasing (or possibly even quoting), but my subject-line is a concept I came across a long time ago and which, while over-simplifying reality like any aphorism, still strikes me as containing more than a nugget or two of truth.
Those little hijab-wearing road-hockey players remind this old cynic that all is not wrong with the world — and indeed, serve as a potent reminder that, if we compare the world as it is today with the world at any given point in recorded history, things have actually improved quite a lot.
And this god damned country, warts and all, is actually in the van as humanity struggles to grow out of its problems before those problems take all us down instead.
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We never solve our problems, we just outgrow them
Date: 2010-04-15 05:50 am (UTC)Those little hijab-wearing road-hockey players remind this old cynic that all is not wrong with the world — and indeed, serve as a potent reminder that, if we compare the world as it is today with the world at any given point in recorded history, things have actually improved quite a lot.
And this god damned country, warts and all, is actually in the van as humanity struggles to grow out of its problems before those problems take all us down instead.
She shoots, she scores!
Love,
Mr. Pollyanna