"The act of reading is an act of empathy, of seeing the world through someone else's eyes."
A sober looks shows that just have the world gotten to be a better place after all; it is also grown a bit worse at the exact same rate.; a one step up, a one step back sort of cosmic balance between forward progress, and cultural retreat, that puts man kind on a bell curve of existence.
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.