Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Trends Changing Your World

Feeling too cheerful? Carried away by high spirits? Downright ebullient? I have just the antidote you need, a listicle (neologism: an article in the form of a list) in Global Post listing eleven current trends that should bring you down to earth.

Here they are, explained briefly where cryptic:
  1. Economic inequality
  2. Gray is the new black - an aging society
  3. A million little pieces - separatist movements
  4. The privatization of space
  5. Horrific weapons under development
  6. The rise of the robots
  7. The end of the BRICS 
  8. The god of violent things - religious violence
  9. Our broken politics
  10. Competition for scarce resources
  11. Climate change
Sheldon Harnick wrote lyrics observing "the whole world is festering with unhappy souls" and now you're one of them, no longer irrationally happy.