good day Hyperspace Fool,

nice of you to join. I had to smile at your final paragraph. Of course if humanity progresses we will look back and see that were were not as developed as we will be then. But that is nothing to be ashamed of. We are not ashamed of our past as primates or even less evolved forms now either. They have all been necessary steps in evolution. The thing we should be ashamed of would be if we did not progress, if we stayed stagnant and eventually became extinct. However in that case there would be no one to feel ashamed anymore.

In any case I believe in progress and transformations. Have you heard of process theory? All things are part of ever-ongoing processes and transformations; there's no avoiding it. It's silly almost to think otherwise. That's why I'm hopeful on the whole for our species and wish to try to increase that which I believe will help our process lead to something more positive. I think cursing the state we are in at the moment is not helpful. We just need to move forward, as we are, no doubt.

cheers