Slippery Slide

It occurred to me the other day that it seems to have only taken a generation (a generation  seen as 70 years) for humanity to descend on a slide of no return.
For sure I felt it but then read this which I think sums up my outlook pretty well.  “Profound evil has always existed, but usually, after it ran its course, …there was the renewed hope that, with enough introspection and personal accountability, each one of us would aspire to a higher level of humanity especially towards one another. It seems that we cannot help ourselves, because, although we may be able to hold it together for a few decades, we always seem to gravitate back to the basest of behaviours…  Each person does what is right in their own eyes – the true definition of anarchy.”
I do feel sorry for the Syrians.  I rejoice with them that a non-caring regime has gone. Yet I feel sorry for them that, if history is anything to go by, their hope will prove to be unfounded.  For centuries mankind has sought to create its own utopia, but the closer it seems to become, the further away it is seen to be.
I will do what I can to bring about the best for another, but I reckon I would be in denial to think that overall things are getting better rather than worse.  I have often said “if these ideas are so good, why is the world not a better place now?”  It seems to me mankind would like to say “I’ve got this” but evidence shows he would be lying.  I am a creation and not the Creator no matter how much I would like to be.
I can’t help but feel the genie has been let out of the bottle and cannot be put back in.  Someone said something like, “A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.”  The point for me is there seems to be a spreading contagion.
But “where there is life there is hope.”  I have a hope built on something often rejected but never dis-proven.  Others have had and still have, that hope.  I rejoice in good examples and am disappointed in, and learn from, the bad.  Others are not me.  I will do what I can.  The choice is mine.