A better world tomorrow?

In my student days 40-odd years ago I got involved with movements and ideas that would have created a better world.

Most of the movements have collapsed or disappeared, the ideas when practical (not always the case) have made little if any progress. Apart from the removal of apartheid in South Africa, I cannot name one thing that I regarded as important 40-odd years ago that needed to happen and did.

Things are different now. The Internet has brought communication possibilities to a level unheard of in the 1960s and 70s. Notably though this can be used for bad as well as good.

Meanwhile across the Western world, the political class has failed us. One side can't, the other side won't - that sort of thinking. Negative voting and advertising is the order of the day. Having something to support which will make a positive difference? Well the ideas are out there, but there seems to be no way of getting them past the self-serving way the system works.

In other words the choice is between bad and atrocious.

Economically things are getting worse for most everybody except the rich and powerful. Overpopulation is an issue that we will not face. And what ought to be important seems to be of increasingly little relevance (full meaningful employment, an end to poverty, debt and war, religious tolerance, and understanding that human population over-growth endangers other species).

In 40 years time, the world will be in an even worse mess than it is now.  I will not be around to see it, thankfully, and thankfully as I had no children, neither will any descendant of mine.  But that is no reason to rejoice!