Perhaps not totally.

Joan Didion says: "I suppose I am talking about just that: the ambiguity of belonging to a generation distrustful of political highs, the historical irrelevancy of growing up convinced that the heart of darkness lay not in some error of social organization but in man’s own blood.”

But does it? Given even just the recent news, one might ask, "what are we as a species?"

Perhaps she is right. Personally, I think social organization is the way to go—but carefully. No bolshevism, no fascism, no Saudi style totalitarianism. No FoxNewsism.

It seems to me the Scandinavian countries have found a way—thinking together to develop a program that makes life as good as possible for every citizen. (But perhaps I'm naive.)

Will we eventually be able to do that here?