Reply #7: Watching the world wake up from history [View All]

[SnowGoose]

A line from a Jesus Jones song from several years back - it's the feeling I get when I hear stories like these.

Right here right now,
there's no place I'd rather be.

Right here right now,
watching the world wake up from history.

It seems to me like a race between growing consciousness and rapid environmental degradation.

Everywhere I look, it seems like progress is being made. I really believe people are beginning to wake up - there's no going back. When my grandmother was born, women couldn't vote in national elections in the USA. Let that sink in - women actually couldn't vote. Because... uhhhh... they're women. There's no going back on that one. Only the fruitiest fruitcakes out on the fringe are still even talking about going back.

It's going to be the same way with the full enfranchisement of our GLBT brethren and sisteren. Assuming I'm lucky enough to have children, they're going to be adults in an America that includes same-gender marriages, and in which the ongoing climate crisis are not subjects of debate.

I just wonder how much will be lost between now and then.