Half Full in Maine

<p>The world is not going to hell. Least of all Maine. Tempting evidence to the contrary notwithstanding we are actually living in a golden age of optimism. </p><p><br></p><p>Hat tip to Mainers including thank-you-for-the-weekend Frances Perkins Millinocket papermaker Garrett Schenck banjo artists on the Kennebec a certain bestselling Carrie author from Bangor Hampden's Dorothea Dix and the little known man who now rests at a small cemetery on Mount Desert Island who in 1962 dated Jackie Kennedy counseled her husband and saved the world from nuclear war.</p><p><br></p><p>There is every reason to worry about climate change violence and fake news peddlers but history is made by optimists not by pessimists. As a result the world today is better safer healthier more comfortable and more entertaining for the vast majority of us than ever before.</p><p><br></p><p>And we're just getting started.</p>