Two Ravens (Redux)

Recently, TIME magazine called the last ten years 'The Decade From Hell'. At the end of the last millennium, the Gnome called the last century 'The Age of Violence'. By all accounts, then, what we've been living through would seem to be the worst of times. And yet, human life has never been so valued, so extended, so enriched.

It isn't a paradox. The human condition is such that when we are exposed to pain, suffering and hardship, human life becomes correspondingly more valued as long as there is a reservoir of capital (human or material) to measure that valuation against. We have become more aware of, more sensitive to suffering simply because we can be.

It's been almost a year since my last maintenance upgrade to Two Ravens. I suppose I said it all there, and there isn't much need to go on.