How is Everyone Here Coping? I'm find it very hard these days..

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135. "Better Angels of Our Nature" raised my spirits

It is unusual for the subtitle of a book to undersell it, but Steven Pinker’s “Better Angels of Our Nature” tells us much more than why violence has declined. Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard who first became widely known as the author of “The Language Instinct,” addresses some of the biggest questions we can ask: Are human beings essentially good or bad? Has the past century witnessed moral progress or a moral collapse? Do we have grounds for being optimistic about the future?

I am a sick puppy, get to feeling such despair & hopelessness at moments that I HAVE to listen to or watch some spritual, even new-agey (even corny, sometimes) Deepak Chopra or Carolyn Myss or on fb, some of the 'positive messages' pages...

And then, get with friends to hold a "We Trust Women Roe v Wade Commemoration rally" or write to my congress critters or write a letter to the editor or see how I can help the local Democratic party or organize a county fair booth with an ANTI-drug-war message...or go home and be a recluse for awhile and watch/listen to those positive messages.