It isn't really that bad!

I’m not suggesting that everything about life is good. I just reject this premise that everything is going to shite. Yes, there are problems that need solving, yes there are things that need fixing and yes for some people life isn’t easy right now, but that has always been the case.

If life was so perfect at one point or another, why did people change it?

Obviously they believed that there was definite need for improvement then, as we do now.

Right now we’re in the middle of a revolution. Not of people, not of governments, not of ideology, but of economics and science. Revolutions shake up life and make a lot of people feel very uncomfortable and uncertain. They require a massive shift in mindsets and they drag everybody along with them, kicking and screaming, into the new paradigm. But when all is said and done, people always look back at revolutions and say ‘that must have been an amazing time to live’.

If you ask me, they are (will be?) right. This is an absolutely amazing time to live. The problem is that most of the people in the West are only seeing the downside. They can only see the increased insecurity, they risk and the change. You see, for most of them what the rest of the world is now getting they’ve already had for the most part for a long time. The jump doesn’t seem to be that big for them and they can’t believe that it’s causing such a big shake up.

They don’t understand that there are three billion people around this world who are being dragged hundreds of years into the future (our present) in the space of a few decades.

Those people that are pessimistic about this time and say that things are bad are rejecting, out of hand, the immense improvements going on in all these people’s lives. Don’t worry, though. The West has largely rejected most of these people out of hand for centuries, so it isn’t really that surprising that they continue to do so now.

Many of the problems arising right now are outmoded governmental and social models breaking apart as the world rides a tsunami which grows continuously stronger with each new earthquake of scientific and economic advancement.

That’s a good thing, though, as people rarely willingly change. You have to force them into a corner, where they really only have one way out. Then they will change and alter the status quo. Then they will make the sacrifices that future generations will thank them for.

You suggest life is so bad, I believe we’re in a new golden age. We’re just so busy being worried that we’re not taking the time to see the golden city rising all around us.