{"id":1984,"date":"2011-10-24T19:59:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2013-09-13T19:15:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T23:15:55","slug":"hope-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"Hope for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading a book called “The Better Angels of Our Nature; why violence has declined.<\/a>” \u00a0 His argument is based on statistics from the 1400’s to the present, and his argument is impressive.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m a little over a third of the way through it, in a chapter called “The Long Peace”.\u00a0 This book gives me more hope than I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been made hopeful by the “Occupy” movement.\u00a0 Some kind of self-organization is happening and it’s creating a new kind of organism, just as long ago hydrocarbon molecules self-organized into living cells. This is not just a protest, or maybe not even a protest, it’s a new way of being together.<\/p>\n

Without a microphone, how do you communicate?<\/a>
\n