The Times Are A-Changin'

Someone wrote the other day that despite what you read and hear the world has never been safer. It's just that the 24-hour news cycle magnifies each event and blows it out of proportion before it moves to the next one where the same thing happens. Having lived through WWII, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and various others misfortunes, I suppose this is true. Islamic fanatics who want to return the world to the 14th century occasional pull off a minor atrocity now and then, or more often fail, but they don't amount to much in the big scheme of things. But they say it is just a matter of time before a suitcase nuclear weapon is detonated in one of our big cities. As interdependent as the electronic age has made us, that would be extremely serious. Worse would be one exploded above us that would fry our electrical grid and knock out every computer in the country. That would put us back in the 19th Century without the skills to survive in such a primitive state. But why borrow trouble, as the wise say. Live for the day and try to get as much simple enjoyment out of it as you can. Yesterday is gone and you can't be certain tomorrow will arrive.