Human Beings: Blight or Blessing?

 

The older I get the more the balance tips in the direction of the former.  It may be that oldsters are natural curmudgeons, and people have always been irrational, panicky, loud, stupid, greedy, mendacious and unable to focus; but it does seem that the end of the world as we know it would be enough to concentrate their minds.  I clasp my brow in amazement each morning.  I should give up reading the news.

I say "they" with the privilege of age, as the day approaches when I will not be one of t...