text: do you think we will someday live in a kinder, more gentle world.....or will it get worse?   man, at my core, i'm an eternal optimist but i'm also covered in a thin shell of pessimism.  and i would like to think, even though my shell tells me i'm wrong, that things will get better and that by working together we can cure the world of the xenophobia that seems to be tearing us all apart.  i do know that if we don't try...the world will get worse.