Bad news gets more attention than good news, and the year 2025 has seen a lot of it. We need to know about things that could hurt us, but we also need hope. Without it, we don’t have the motivation to stop the harmful things. By way of offering a little hope, I’ve put together a YouTube playlist titled “Hope”, with a dozen videos that can offer encouragement. The research for the list proved my point; it was hard to find videos that fit the theme. I wanted ones that presented a real positive, not just the negation of a negative. Winning World War II or killing Bin Laden wouldn’t fit, even if the world is better off for those things happening. The topics of the videos I picked are:
- The Bill of Rights
- Fall of the Berlin Wall
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Abolition of Ireland’s blasphemy law
- Penicillin
- Rediscovery of lost films
- Averting World War III
- Sears Catalog vs. Jim Crow
- Nichelle Nichols and Martin Luther King
- Rhode Island and religious freedom
- Limiting the English monarchy
- World War I Christmas truce
Enjoy them!
Hi Gary,
Perhaps you might add Heinlein’s “This I believe” essay.
Regards,
Dann
Give the American people a good cause, and there’s nothing they can’t lick. – John Wayne
It’s good, but parts of it feel like an America that no longer exists.