we're not doomed, guys

Some people seem really feel pessimistic about stuff. Hell, so do I, often. But I think sometimes it's important to look a little beyond that.

Here's a conversation I had, which relates. Maybe it will make you think, I dunno.

Guy: I'm starting to think the only way we'll ever see a lasting change in the human race is if we manage to start changing how people fundamentally think.
Shade: Yes.
Shade: It has been happening, slowly, really.
Shade: Violent crime has gone down almost world-wide
Shade: Creativity flows like almost never before.
Shade: We just have some really bad apples.
Shade: But otherwise, it's a flourishing tree.
Shade: And it only grows bigger, and branches more, as it grows older.
Shade: That's the beauty of it.
Guy: I just fear that someone decides to cut the tree down and send us back to the dark ages.
Shade: You know, people can. If they had their mind set on destroying everything.
Shade: But those people are far and few between.
Shade: Look at mankind. We are not merely livers, we are survivors.
Shade: What compells people to go white-water rafting? Hiking over mountains? Flying for fun? Parachuting?
Shade: It's because it puts us back into our instincts. Our instincts on how to survive.
Shade: Humanity is comprised of opportunists. We survive by using an opportunity for good.
Shade: And nothing, aside from the sun itself demolishing this entire planet, shall be able to destroy humanity.
Shade: Oh, we may fall to the dark ages.
Shade: We may fall to the stone age.
Shade: Yet we will climb back. And we will learn of what happened. And we will be better, and go farther, and become stronger than ever before.
Shade: Nobody, except the gods and the heavens, can wipe out humanity.
Shade: And lucky for us, those seem pretty docile.