Always so enlightening and heartwarming to see so much progress in the world!
I used to feel despair reading news but this is so wonderful with data to support the content that is actually brings tears to my eyes! I feel more confident that there will be an improved world for my grandchildren. 🌈👍
Thank you for the stand-out piece at the start of the newsletter this week about Professor Jennifer Mercieca and hopescrolling.
I feel that one reason exposure to real, positive news stories happening all the time all around us has this awesome healing power that studies like this are showing they do is because they challenge - and change - negative preconceptions of human nature.
These negative preconceptions are that humanity is merely the product of forces beyond our control blindly operating on us. That we are on a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes. That we are inevitably doomed and incorrigibly selfish, born as wretches and
incapable of rescuing ourselves from our own oblivion. That the only reasonable action left to us is to burn and rave at the close of the day before the dying of the light.
The beauty of this healing when exposed to so many of these real and positive news stories occurs I feel because we begin to appreciate how instead our natural actions are to reach out, connect, and help others. To find common cause; to act to resolve local, regional and global issues; to contribute selflessly to the well-being of others. To find, hold and appreciate our innate power of agency. To build a world together guided by motivations of unconditional love, where the richness of the diversity of the human race becomes its powerful unifying attractor.
Maybe these kinds of carefully planned systematic educational settings work as well as they do because they awaken within us an awareness of the power and agency of the human spirit.
I like your story this week about China being the worst polluter. I have incorporated it in my messaging to candidates for Congress of the USA. Angus, you made me think. Bill McKibben says we have the opportunity to end the climate crisis because solar has grown like crazy lately. But as good a reason to be hopeful is that China is the worst and they have turned around.
Always so enlightening and heartwarming to see so much progress in the world!
I used to feel despair reading news but this is so wonderful with data to support the content that is actually brings tears to my eyes! I feel more confident that there will be an improved world for my grandchildren. 🌈👍
Thank you for the stand-out piece at the start of the newsletter this week about Professor Jennifer Mercieca and hopescrolling.
I feel that one reason exposure to real, positive news stories happening all the time all around us has this awesome healing power that studies like this are showing they do is because they challenge - and change - negative preconceptions of human nature.
These negative preconceptions are that humanity is merely the product of forces beyond our control blindly operating on us. That we are on a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes. That we are inevitably doomed and incorrigibly selfish, born as wretches and
incapable of rescuing ourselves from our own oblivion. That the only reasonable action left to us is to burn and rave at the close of the day before the dying of the light.
The beauty of this healing when exposed to so many of these real and positive news stories occurs I feel because we begin to appreciate how instead our natural actions are to reach out, connect, and help others. To find common cause; to act to resolve local, regional and global issues; to contribute selflessly to the well-being of others. To find, hold and appreciate our innate power of agency. To build a world together guided by motivations of unconditional love, where the richness of the diversity of the human race becomes its powerful unifying attractor.
Maybe these kinds of carefully planned systematic educational settings work as well as they do because they awaken within us an awareness of the power and agency of the human spirit.
"Totally unrelated." Heh.
I like your story this week about China being the worst polluter. I have incorporated it in my messaging to candidates for Congress of the USA. Angus, you made me think. Bill McKibben says we have the opportunity to end the climate crisis because solar has grown like crazy lately. But as good a reason to be hopeful is that China is the worst and they have turned around.