Unless you’ve been living in a place that contains stalactites and stalagmites, you know that we, as society, are fucked.
We’re in the middle of a national economic crisis; there’s no confidence in Wall Street, people are losing jobs left and right, the US is still in Iraq where it never should’ve been in the first place, an election next month threatens to tear the nation apart on racial, gender-like and ideological fronts, climate change continues to threaten the world via super-powered tropical storms and other natural disasters, and there appears to be no hope in sight for any of this to be resolved.
Well, I’m telling you that there is hope.
Because today, I set my apartment’s brand new thermostat to go up to 67 degrees at 6:00pm M-F. And, a little under 30 minutes ago, the heat went up to 67 degrees, as I instructed it to do. And tonight, at 11:00pm, the heat will drop to 62 degrees, because I told it to.
Friends, these are exciting times.