From my perspective, “Are we going to make it?” is the wrong question. As you would expect, I must return to the only two questions that matter: Who do I want to be, and what did I come here to do?
The most perplexing form of evil, and especially so for all idealists, is that kind of evil which comes out of our efforts to do good. Perhaps when we try to do good without love, we create evil.
William Irwin Thompson