I’m finally getting woke to this. Doomsday is always on the horizon — inevitable, implacable. Like a dark end of history where all our good works are crushed to nothing. We may as well have not tried.

But it never totally arrives. There’s dark times for sure, but short of a gamma ray burst, we keep limping along. As long as there are people still in the game there are ways things could be better or worse depending on what we do today.