So much of the media centers around gloom and doom and economic woes, corruption, war, and scores of problems that plague our world. I fear that our 24/7 news outlets resemble more the voyeurism we find on the freeway, where traffic gets backed up due to people not being in a car wreck, rather lines of cars queue up to simply get a look at someone else’s misfortune.
We’re in danger of becoming a cynical culture that
peddles more pessimism than hope and now with the latest and greatest
technology, this fascination that pockets of humanity has with the fall of
other people, can now go viral. My hope is that with all of the current
protests going on, whether it’s Wall Street or Greece, whether it’s in the West
or the Majority World, people don’t forget to hope, to point to something
better, to say at least a few things that remind us of something beautiful.
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The chaplain knew the game well too, I could tell right away: his gaze never faltered. And his voice didn't falter, either, when he said, 'Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?' 
