March 5, 2022 I was in Disney World last week, which means I got to spend time on my very favorite ride, Spaceship Earth. For those who aren't familiar, it's inside the big silver ball at Disney's EPCOT Park, and you lurch about from animatronic scene to animatronic scene as Dame Judi Dench narrates a brief history of human communication. It's the best. It's also full of wide-eyed optimism about the future, which can be hard to stomach as we see so much suffering and violence across the world. But perhaps the times when such a message is most difficult to believe -- that the future can be what we make it, that we are at our best when connected and working together -- are the times that it is most important to hear. At the end of the ride, Dame Judi says "all of us can have a say about the kind of world we want to live in." It's hard work keeping that truth alive, but as both passengers and crew on our "grand and miraculous spaceship," it's our duty to steer toward a future worth being optimistic about.
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