Timothy Burke looks forward to next year with foreboding

Timothy Burke in 8 by7:

The thing is, in 2024 I think the mass of humanity will remain what it basically has been all along in modernity: full of decency, ready for justice, open to change. Sorry for their trespasses, hoping not to be trespassed against. Wanting to just live their lives and be left well enough alone. If the powerful could only manage to keep things running well enough for everyone, share some wealth and leave space for the vast rest of their societies, I think most people would return the favor and leave them to scheme and jostle amongst themselves. I wish it was just a moral failing of power and that would could wish reasonably enough for a better class of millionaires and ministers. But there’s something systematically rotten in the world we’ve made and it will take something with systematic energy to push things to being good enough for the world to go on being enough for everyone, as it plainly can be. We have the tools, just no hands worthy of using them and no plan to build what they’re capable of making.