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The last few days I've struggled to imagine a future that would be worth hoping for.  I think it's something many many people have gone through these past few years.  Certain news and the current political and cultural climate in many places around the world, combined with restrictions on travel and lots of horrifying news stories and not even knowing which news to believe really makes it easy to feel that way.  

If we focus on current events or any specific popular narrative, it's really easy to fall into thinking that the worst is yet to come for humanity.  There are far too many potential disasters that have no foreseeable escape, all of them with the potential to end in utter chaos.  So I don't fault those with a bleak outlook.

Even if I find myself grasping at things to feel hopeful about sometimes, at the end of the day, I always manage to find it.  There are always wildcards that pop up and force us to throw our expectations away, and if we look at things as objectively as we can, without focusing on anecdotes, we can usually find more to be positive about than we are presented with.  Fear sells.  

I try to catch patterns and account for as much as I can, including the inevitability of surprises.  

I see the ability to travel around the world in a few hours,  progress towards equality between race, gender and orientation (as complicated as it may be at times), a trend towards more variety and diversity...and I compare it with 100 years ago.   Not everything is better now, but we are certainly moving towards a world with more understanding, compassion and creativity.  We simply lack the larger context to see how much better things are.

There may be a whole lot of arguing on social media and fear in the news, but if we compare it to WW1 and WW2, or even the Cold War, the current moment really pales in comparison to the depths of fear and close-mindedness experienced back then.

We just lost a lot of false-hope and there is a massive vacuum where it used to be.  That's all.  And so some people are freaking out and lashing out and that's understandable.  Finally, the hegemony on culture falling down, and so people are allowed to say things that they could never say before, and it's causing some things to stir.

Meanwhile, I feel as close to strangers in 6 continents of all races and a variety of ideologies as I do to the people I grew up with, and I know this is becoming increasingly normal.

I can't emphasize enough how the advent of the internet has changed the world.  I am not just talking about the fact that it has connected us and made things easier, I'm talking about how these connections have only just begun to transform our culture, and when I see all the bullshit in the news, I have to keep calm and remind myself: change is never easy, and old habits die hard.  These are growing pains.

We are in a rough patch.  Things could get ugly, sure.  But I don't think the overall trend for humanity is leading towards destruction.  We are hardly the first generation of people on earth who though they were living in the end of days.  

My main reason for becoming interested in crypto is that I think it hints at where we might be going.  So many things felt impossible until just a few years ago.  There was no technology to facilitate some of the more positive or exciting potential paths that humanity could take.  It looked like we were heading towards a dead-end, but the emergence of the blockchain and the second and third generation of internet usage worldwide makes it a whole lot easier to imagine a world less bleak than the absolute worst-case-scenarios.

I started writing up some predictions on what the world may look like in the next 5-10 years and hope to share them in the coming days.  The goal in writing them was to come up with plausible and hopeful outcomes in order to spread a kind potential direction that we may want to move in, and to let go of my own fears that we may instead be headed straight towards our own demise, as seems to be the most popular narrative. 

Looking forward to putting all these thoughts into words and seeing what I can come up with.

What makes you feel positive about the future? Or do you think it's all hopeless?


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