Hoping.

One of the reasons why the Ukraine business disturbs me so much (and it really does) is the fact that after many thousands of years of evolution, the human animal still feels the need to do this sort of thing. Why can’t we grow up, I ask myself? What is this obsession we have with territory and wealth and superiority? Why can’t we tip all the weapons into the Mariana Trench and concentrate on just getting on with each other

But maybe there’s a glint of light to be seen in all this…

I think it’s probably true to say that throughout human history people haven’t generally cared about what this psychopath or that empire builder has been up to as long as it didn’t affect them personally. Now it seems they do. It seems that people from Argentina to Alaska to Australia are united in their condemnation of Russia (or at least Putin and his military lackeys.) People now feel an emotional stake in global affairs as well as local ones, so maybe globalisation has something going for it after all. Maybe we’re slowly getting there.

(Do you know, every day I try to find something funny to say on this blog but it’s mostly a lost cause. Tomorrow, maybe.)