There are lots of things to be cheerful about now – thank you Ian Drury.
Everything is awesome – sometimes we forget how awesome.
Everything’s Amazing, Nobody’s Happy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoGYx35ypus
I think there will even more things to be cheerful about in the future.
I’m a meliorist.I believe that we are getting better, that we are improving ourselves.
I believe that being more connected to each other will make us nicer. That we will begin to dissolve the boundaries between people that keep tearing us apart.
I am hopeful that soon people in the USA, the bastion of freedom, will be able to marry whoever they want.
One Day Equals: http://www.onedayequals.com/
I am hopeful that having many eyes will stop help stop injustice by exposing it to the world.
We live at a time where the economics of cultural production are being radically decentralised – where never have so many had a voice in the history of humanity, nor social motivations been so empowered to create culture and effect change.
Collective action seems easier when you are connected, when you are a collective.
Twestival 2009: http://tigs.tumblr.com/post/91690815/twestival-2009-via-hannahyi84
I believe that social media is exposing, highlighting and empowering social motivations. That people are remembering that the most important thing is being nice to other people. That culture is being minted anew, created bottom up by all of us.
And I think that’s pretty awesome.
Faris is a digital ninja, living in New York City. He writes the Talent Imitates, Genius Steals weblog, where you can find (among other things), this entry on optimism from 2008.
