>> and I am old enough now to know this will never happen in a society that values Instagram influencers and Black Friday over common sense and wisdom > I disa

>> and I am old enough now to know this will never happen in a society that values Instagram influencers and Black Friday over common sense and wisdom > I disagree, but then maybe I'm not old enough. :) I didn't mean to come across as entirely pessimistic. My pessimism is directed at society at large. I think it is going in the toilet incredibly fast and there is no way to recover from this. We will end up in some form of mass oppression in my life time. But, as I have gotten older and found more wisdom in every day life, I have found new things to be happy and optimistic about, my near surroundings, family and the people I directly interact with. This is where I feel there is hope, I've seen people turn their lives around in my family. I've learned hard lessons raising my older kids that my younger kids now benefit from. I've found I can turn a bad day into a good one, stop heated arguments and fights and turn them into apologies and discussions. All by changing how I live day to day. This is a small thing, but I have found that if I turn off the internet and ignore the news, it's my entire world. The masses do not want wisdom, optimism or change. Look at the entertainment that sells to the masses, it's mostly delusion based fantasy. Most of it is pessimistic. There's no changing everyone's world, only those that are around us, but to me, that's more than I thought possible when I was young.