It COULD Happen

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 The whole world could just go to hell.  But for some reason I'm some kind of crazy old man with a smile on my face.  I don't believe for one moment it will.  I inherited my mom's optimism about life.  She was the most upbeat person I have ever known.  One of the things my Spirit Guides left me with was mental health.  

I don't smoke a pipe and sit around and ruminate.  Been there done that.  I don't look at my past and wish.  I have lived my life so far as my Spirit Guides wanted me to live it.  But most of all and maybe most importantly, I am not anxious about the future.  I have no anxiety about my own future.  I smoke a pipe to focus on the now.  I'm not sure I can say a lot more in the blog I haven't said, but I write to keep my mind sharp.  And I explore many things and ideas throughput the day to think of things I want to say.

But back in the 50's futurists were optimistic mostly about nuclear energy.  But speak of nuclear things today and places like Chernoble or Fukushima come to mind.  And it seems today the future is almost apocalyptic.  This is why there is a lot of anxiety about the future today.  I love to go back to those futuristic ideas then about what living today was like back then.  There was so much optimism about the future, but not today looking forward.

Futursts today see a future world controlled by AI.  Some have suggested AI will replace humanity.  I saw a sign on a building under construction that simply asked, "Can AI build this building?"  Of course it can't; but can robots replace construction workers?  Robotics has taken over many industrialized jobs.  But can the cost of maintaining robotics be cheaper than paying humans to do the same job?

I keep thinking that maybe the future looks bleak because humanity has advanced as far as it can go.  Maybe this period in the world's history IS the Apocalypse.  Maybe we are at the end waitung for a New Beginning.  This is why I'm an optimist because this is my thinking.  But my parents and grandparents thought the same thing.  They were optimistic too.  

So, this is my thinking this morning as I sit here on the patio this morning smoking my Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipe with my Old Professor tobacco and drinking a hot black cup of Guatamalan coffee.  I feel happy about the future.  And I believe I have good reason to say this.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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