Don’t believe that you need to know ‘the truth’ about the horrors in the world in order to be an ‘informed’ citizen. You’ll never know the truth. Anything you can comprehend is a reduction, full of generalizations and over-simplifications. Don’t spend time compiling lists of the shortcomings you perceive from your limited perspective. It won’t be accurate and attempting it won’t serve you. If you want to help yourself and the world with narrow subjective interpretations of an impossibly complex reality, do everybody a favor and err…
On the side of positivity.
Steve and Jarl
I tend to think of prospects in terms of estimated probabilities. Unquestionably, we must err on the side of positivity, and science (as I see it) agrees with the enormous complexity you suggest.
Yet the paths to some futures seem worth working cooperatively to avoid. In this area, I feel guided by the life of Joanna Macy.