I'd like to be one of those optimists but the religious view sticks in my head more than the scientific when I'm thinking in scared terms.

It makes sense. I just don't know if we're being held back from being capable of taking that step by greedy fucking corporations and a fucked up bunch of governments that do as much harm as good sometimes, by our own stupid ideological differences. (woaaaah nelly. *reins in the dark horse named Pessimism*)

Yeah. It's not just what I see. It's I have friends (and ex-friends) that see strange things and have weird dreams, and I see a lot of clear eyed people who get what looks like is going on, but we don't get a whole lot of attention.