After reading about the unconscionable massacre which recently occured in Nigeria, I've been wondering whether we're getting anywhere as a species. Progress comes in fits and starts, if you can call it progress at all when such abhorent acts of primitive brutality can still exist. Maybe as individuals we move forward. But collectively, I'm not so sure.
As the Dark Ages showed us, advances made in previous ages can easily be wiped out. Periods of tolerance and rationality give way to interludes of hatred, ignorance and repression. No gains can be taken for granted. Education and ongoing discourse are paramount to keeping dignity, compassion, love, decency and goodness alive.
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