Our future looks better than our past

We are way better off than the Reagan line about a room full of manure meaning there is a pony in there somewhere. And his line was optimistic, and our USA future applies to the world, also. We are way past “the end of the world as we know it”. This all is because of humans and families and business … the politicians have little to do with all this, thank goodness. If the politicians were really in charge, it might be time to roll over and let the barbarians rule we people.

A short version of the 50 year past means the cold war, communist gulags, third world repressions, expanding western cultural values, naivety and idealism born of personal security, expansion of personal wealth to more of we masses, and of course hot wars prosecuted by the have nots against the haves. A short version of the next 50 year history suggests a rise of the mercantile class in Asia and Europe, the slow decline of the oil funded Islamic fascism, the power and influence of the information age making English the universal language, and the news and real events driving politicians from all cultures in a shared manner. Nation-states will wilt towards tribes as a way for families to promote and protect their progeny. The bottom line is our Families. Compared to the past (which we did survive), today’s parents have more hope for their progeny than I suggest our parents had for us.

Astute leadership is required to avoid devolving into barbarism, which we are more than capable of doing. The obvious leadership principle is one of knowing the difference between idealism (only if the world were perfect) and practicality that we all live in, be it the USA or Sri Lanka, as examples. It is the simple aforementioned comparison that provides hope for the future of our progeny. The hard and cold human politician instincts for power and influence have always been balanced out by simple human greed at the local levels … we all want to take care of our families, and provide them an opportunity!

So who should worry us most about our Family’s future? A Nancy Pelosi from a District in California or a warlord in Moro land in the southern Philippines. In the greater scheme of things they (both egos) have as much to do with our own families as anyone other politician.

So in the great miasma of today’s events, we citizens still have choices that will affect our families. In this our future looks better than our past. Much work and fighting will still need to be done to make it be our outcome. In all this peoples and families will lead, like always; and politicians will catch up, like always.