November 4 there was a disturbance in the Matrix. We went from a progressive 21st century through a time warp to mid-30s Germany.
At any one time in history you can put your finger up and tell which way the wind is blowing and if you are emotionally tied to the results you can make yourself miserable. We have entered a psychotic phase in our history as a nation with the results of conservative and libertarian attitudes cresting owing to the destruction they reek on the human psyche. We think that moral will improve if we increase the beatings people take, those evil others of course.
But perhaps it there may be wisdom in taking a longer view. Conservative and libertarian values, a part of our evolutionary past, and served us well before we developed a functional capacity to reason and predict the future from the psychological understanding granted by self reflection, something that fear in its many forms makes difficult.
You are not alone in your concerns and a huge amount of human effort by millions of others has been devoted to understanding what our fate will be.
In my opinion, there is a different way to look at which way the wind is blowing by looking at the what human nature really is, and in particular, why we have a thing called morality.
Many regard morality as subjective, a matter of personal opinion, that distrust of and control over people is required to maintain civic order, that without violence and force, people will think only of themselves. But what if that is only the logical reaction to living in a defective system that rewards negative behavior and destroys natural human empathy.
If you look at the long arc of human history it is the liberals who are winning, Today's society and the constitutional freedoms our forefathers gave us would have seemed to be insane. Not saying we are at the end of the road, reaching some great height and now in decline. What I am saying is that I believe that it is human nature to care, to think of others as well as ourselves and that you can destroy that tendency with programming but never eliminate it from human nature. Somewhere some how, as history tells us, it will thrive and grow. God is a projection of our own inner potential.
No matter what happens in the world outside, your potential as a god will always be within you. The more faith you have in that the better and better off you will be. The universe is a mirror and you hold one end.