At left is an interesting thought exercise.  Here’s everything I can think of, and it’s not much.  When I was in elementary school in the early 1960s, it was believed that:

The main types of rocks: sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous, had been in place and remained the same since the formation of the earth.  Now we have the “rock cycle,” where rock compounds are known to be continually changing form over very long periods of geologic time.

Every atom in our bodies and elsewhere on our planet is the result of the explosion of stars somewhere in the universe.  As Neil DeGrasse Tyson puts it, “You are in the universe, and the universe is in you.”

Science Is Not a Set of Facts; It’s a Process of Learning More About Our Universe

The support for Alberta’s seceding from Canada is about 5%, according to a physician I know up there.

I know it’s hard to believe, but Fox News is a thoroughly dishonest organization.

Alberta Isn’t Going Anywhere

The closest you’re going to come to a society that suits the human spirit, aka a utopia, is social democracy.

People work, but within reason; they don’t need two or more jobs to keep their heads above water. They get lengthy vacations and parental leaves.

They pay higher taxes, but they receive valuable benefits from the government, e.g., free education and healthcare.

Moreover, they have a sense of community, of taking care of one another.  Perhaps the most soul-killing aspect of life in America is that so many of us are indifferent to the needs and suffering of others.

Suiting the Human Spirit