Avoid the Pain, Dare To Change

Oh how troubling to hear the scary sounds of hopelessness! Even more so from aged ones leaving many questions; no answers. A 97 year old man speaks and the world with ears open and heads up, listens. He recently spoke of a cold war unlike any we have ever seen; between parties Almost evenly matched with economic, military, and technological capacities. Complex tasks and prior failures flood the vocabulary of experts. He only predicts possible if not a probable catastrophic disaster. We listen to him and return to our coffee while buying and selling. We watch him in the news and resume our texting and taking selfies. We deem men are wiser today, forgetting that humans rarely change. We are less wise, but more woeful, more war-like, more self-destructive. May we dare to be unlike our relatives of Noah's day, who never changed. 050221PS