A thought for Friday

Common Sense Canadian blogger Ray Grigg: "Cynicism seems to be the temper of our times. We know what our challenges are and, in most cases, we know how to move toward solutions. But we are in danger of adopting a dismissive indifference, a perverse reluctance and a defeatist resignation that fails to address these challenges with adequate resolution and vigour. When the challenges invite us to be brave and assertive - 'Fortune knows we scorn her most when most she offers blows,' Shakespeare advised - our heroism is crippled by cynicism. If we don't believe that we are capable of surmounting our difficulties then we commit ourselves to be victims of our own failings."