Becoming an advanced civilization.

I'm trying to learn to live ahead of my time. By asking myself what will be the right thing at some point in the future. We are always living in time when what's right today will be wrong tomorrow. For instance, it used to be considered morally all right to base our economy, in large part, on slave labor. And to deny women equal rights. And to live in a racially segregated society. But we eventually became enlightened. We learned that what we were doing was horribly wrong. Fortunately, we're always in a period of transition. Correcting our wrongs. Maybe we are in the beginning of the throes of scuttling the American capitalist system for something far better. Maybe for an alternative system that narrows the gap between the rich and the poor, between the haves and the have-nots. And we're also moving in the direction of allowing homosexuals to be married to each other. And to eliminate capital punishment. And way, way ahead in the distant future, we also may find a way to eliminate war. That will make us one of the more advanced civilizations in the cosmos. --Jim Broede