In praise of today

On this date I think in praise of today. It has occurred to me that the world today is a far less cruel place then it once was. It may still be cruel, far crueller than in acceptable, but cruelty has suffered a decline in recent decades. I think this is because people are beginning to believe in the plausibility of good will and the subtle structuring of karma, although this belief is constantly under assault by those who would see cold market forces rule the day. I also think in praise of political correctness. It has had a very bad press, this being so because certain negative side effects of the idea have been overrepresented. I think that it is a brilliant thing that a mindset has been established that makes it socially unacceptable to be racist, prejudiced or bigoted. Thanks to political correctness gone are the days when racism was indulged as simply another viewpoint. It is no longer tolerated, neither are most forms of intolerance.