For various reasons periodically, someone asks me how I think things are going around the world and for the last twenty-years my answer has remained the same regardless of the current events at the time.  Now here is my stock response in quotes.

“The world is just fine and getting better day after day after every blessed day.”

Oh, now come on, Jim.  What have you been smoking?  How can you say the world is getting better every day?  What about all the national conflicts going on?  What about global warming?  What about the pandemic?  What about all the poverty, hunger, and thirst in the world?  What about?  What about?  What about?

Well, let me start out by addressing the implication associated with the first point first and then I will get to the other ones.

Yes, I do on occasion smoke something that some people think that I should not be smoking (my bad).  And yes, I do take a prescribed pill every morning to deal with my natural tendency towards depression.  But I swear that neither of those realities has anything to do with my world view.

Consider this.  I was born just a couple of years after the last Great World War (1947).  During the subsequent 73-plus years of my life, never have I felt the world was moving towards another Great War—not even close.  And that includes the four-year period during the “Cold War” when I served as an officer on a U.S. fleet ballistic missile submarine, which carried 160 nuclear warheads, and which could have essentially destroyed a good portion of the world by itself.  “Now man battle stations missile, man battle stations missile.”  Thank you very much.

Consider this.  The United States just elected an exceptionally good man as its President who is determined to take “global warming” and the “pandemic” head on.  And whether you believe it or not, the United States leads the world--pretty much determining how fast it turns.  You can already sense the breath of the fresh air of a new spring where the world’s science, ingenuity, and determination will conquer the global warming and pandemic beasts.  Pollution and virus be damned. 

Consider this.  Although poverty, hunger, and thirst still exist throughout our planet, world data does in fact show that every day there is less poverty, hunger, and thirst in the world.  In fact, many fine people spend their entire lives working to assure that is the case.  Thank you, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, etc.  Not everyone buries their head in the sand.

Consider this.  The world’s business community is thriving to the benefit of all—opening new and rapid forms of communication, goods sharing, data analysis, food preservation, transportation, energy-production—the list can go on and on.  And today the business community is better than it was yesterday.  Who had even thought of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, etc., 73-years ago?  Who had even thought of those companies 30-years ago?  What about SpaceX?  Enough said on that subject.

Consider this.  The world’s creative genius is raising its IQ every day thru “new” science and artistic creativity.  That is just a natural fact or human condition.  Call it evolution if you want.  Find a better cure for a disease—you bet.  Find a way to get from here to there better and faster—you bet.  Find a way to explore the atom or the universe—you bet.  Find a way to better protect our singular and lonely planet—you bet.

Consider this.  The “inevitability” of my theory and concept called “globanomics” being implemented world-wide is closer today than it was yesterday and even closer than it was the day before that.  With the expansion of core world principals to include such things as “love”, “do no harm”, “the ethic of reciprocity”, and “exponential reality”—added to those of “freedom” and an individual’s “right to pursue happiness”--globanomics will create an atmosphere where a person’s color, nationality, and/or religion is not viewed as a barrier, but instead a source for new creative input for the resolution of common world problems.  Racism be damned.

Okay, call me an idiot or a fool-hardy optimist if you want.  I will only smile in return.  I understand I am sitting out on a limb that many of you think is about to break off from the tree.  For example, as I was writing this TalkMarkets’ article, I glanced at my television and saw a headline at the bottom of the screen that said, “only 43% of the U.S. population thinks that the U.S. is moving in the right direction.”  I am not blind to what others are saying.  I simply will not allow that noise to deter my undeterred optimism.

Now with all of that said, let me end with a question for you, the reader of this article.  If you do not buy into my world view, what is yours?

I will wager one-hundred dollars to your one that mine is better than yours.