What’s good about the world? We’re not looking for miracles or final results. We are looking for improvement. Let’s not look at the world we don’t have now, but look more at the far and recent past where almost nothing was possible, available, accessible, and the like. Our list does not include everyone everywhere. Progress is not constant nor uniform. In some places forward steps come in leaps while in others backward steps seem the rule. With all we hear daily of riots here, wars there, violence in the streets, intrigue in the palace, assassinations, subversions, perversions, and all others, we take a pause and consider what we have is far, far beyond the situations of almost all only a century or two ago. We now live in a world where most people --- Have some civil rights. Have basic schooling. Have machines to make life easier. Have food produced by an agricultural bounty. Have some rights to practice a religion of choice. Are neither s
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