Is it any wonder why the world is the sh-t hole that it is? When a man adopts the attitude of "kill em all" he's admired. But when a man tries to convey the preciousness of life he's ridiculed.

I've never been accused of being an optimist. I'm usually quite the pessimist, actually, which is why I'm on this website planning for worst-case scenarios. But the one thing that I remain optimistic about is the one thing that makes everyone else pessimistic. I don't think we, as a species, are doomed to self-destruct. I think we can avoid it. I think we will avoid it. We have the potential to do such fantastic things, the likes of which those of us who are alive today can't even begin to imagine.

It's not going to be easy. It will hurt, and hurt bad, for those who prophecy doom are themselves the bringers of doom. They will kill and be killed. But eventually, others will come to their senses and take the future of humankind onward to a better condition.

I have to believe that.