Darkness

NY Times: The Darkness Where the Future Should Be - What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come? By Michelle Goldberg

The dearth of optimistic visions of the future, at least in the United States, is central to the psychic atmosphere of this bleak era. Pessimism is everywhere: in opinion polls, in rising suicide rates and falling birthrates, and in the downwardly mobile trajectory of millennials.