Chaotic Times
We live in chaotic times. How chaotic remains to be seen. But we should never give way to despair, and believe that our times are irredemeably bad. Rather, we should take hope in the knoweledge that things can always get worse. This is one of the few lessons that we learn from the past. There have always been better times, just as there have always been worse times. History can be read as a tale full of oppression, death, and genocide; but it also has sublime moments of art, faith and human accomplishment. All this is our inheritance.