Les, we "cup half fullers" tend to live longer, even if "cup half emptiest" tend to assay the situation more accurately. At least, that is what they found in researching concentration camp survivors. I see ignorance as a problem. We can be happier if we are dumb, but we are less capable of making things better. The old Chinese curse applies to us: "May you be reborn in remarkable times." We live in a time of possibilities. The future will become what we make of it. We might possibly experience a paradigm shift in our lifetimes. When the military is abolished and we are weaned off of petrochemicals.
Lee Love