The Future Keeps Happening

In recent years, life has changed a lot for all of us and sometimes not. Watching and listening to any news might leave anyone thinking about hoping in a future. But if you go back to the 1960s, as I can now, you will recall distinct similarities with the advent of nuclear threats with capabilities between two world powers as power-filled nations and a potential outcome that could signal the end of the world as we knew it. So what's changed? The goodness of our COVID year was a year of recognising elements of humanity that came to the forefront instead of having been quite buried; it was a belief in humanity doing the right thing as we saw sacrifices made on every level, kindness, support, willing and open compliance for the better good of all and then international unity. It didn't take too long for that to leave us and for life to go back to the old normal of dysfunctionality. People who had drawn closer become self protecting rather than considering the better good of the whole, we…