In the Meantime, In Between Time
That’s a riff on ‘Ain’t We Got Fun?’ A song that dates waaay back to the Great Depression in America:
Not much money,
Oh but honey,
Ain’t we got fun?In the meantime,
In between time,
Ain’t we got fun?
And it’s apropos of these times in which we live.
America is mostly in the dumper, Great Britain is becoming less great every day, Putin is loose again in Ukraine, we’re all pissed at China for whatever transgression du jour and the environment (however we care to define that) is going absolutely to hell. Each day there’s another asteroid headed toward Earth, closer than the one reported last week.
And yet.
Never in recorded history has it been a better time to be a human on this planet. Worldwide poverty has never been lower, life expectancies are markedly upward, education (particularly among women) is on the increase and universal advances in healthcare have population growth topping out and beginning to decline.
Researchers Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna argued recently in their book Age of Disc…