Angel Season 4: Trying to Make a Better World (early access)
The moral case for trying to make a better world without destroying it.
We all wish the world was better.
For the most part, people hate that there's war and hunger and disease and all the other things that makes the world feel like it's terrible. We wish we could do something to make it so that people don't hurt each other out of anger or greed or whatever reasons people give themselves to justify doing what they know they shouldn't. If only there was something we could do to make people see that they don't have to be so terrible, the world would be better. All we have to do is get everyone on board with the idea of what a better world we can have, we could bring it about.
Previously in this space, we looked at the idea of leaving childhood behind and developing a more adult way of thinking, then we looked at what it means to actually make adult decisions. More recently we looked at the idea of becoming a parent so we know that some part of us will go forward into the world and maybe give you hope for the future. But that's far from the end of the story. As much as we might want to believe that our children will carry our ideas forward and become part of your desire to have a better world for them to live in, you can't be certain that they will. Children don't always follow in their parents footsteps. They will have their own ideas about what a better world will look like and it might get in the way of your own desires. So what do we do when we know that?
“Nothing in the world is the way it oughta be, it's harsh and cruel, but that's why there's us... champions. Doesn't matter what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be. You're not a part of that yet, I hope you will be.”
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