Sadness and sickness in one large emotional and internal urge!
Decline and decay in so many areas of our existence. Both Earth and the beings on it are in a constant and seemingly inevitable decline and decay.
Perhaps it is a natural weakness that Hope’s voice sounds whiney – always. It seems to always logically have a presence in every negative allowance or analogy, but rarely significant.
One is inclined to conclude that the great good fortunes – evidenced by history in its books – are meaningless to the individual since he are she will be gone if or when it arrives!
The wisdom of Carl Sagan makes the most sense. No other planet known will “save us from ourselves”. As devastating as were our wars of the last fifty years – rarely a decade without one, nor in the present one, the net (apart from the little ones in the Near East designed to keep the military industrial folks happy and prosperous) will include the bit toys that are at this point in every bad boy’s arsenal. Ready for a word for the likes of Trump to show off – at the general peril of humankind.