{"id":2598,"date":"2008-01-28T21:59:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T16:02:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-28T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T16:02:03","slug":"the-two-percent-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/the-two-percent-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Percent Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nLast Christmas morning you were probably not listening to the radio as you opened presents. I know we weren&#8217;t. But that is when Morning Edition broadcast a short interview with me on the subject of progress. I guess in the spirit of things cosmic and joyful, they let me rant about the reason I am an optimist. You can listen to the segment here, but I can sum the story by saying that I am optimistic because I think that while disease, illness, stupidity, wickedness, problems, and evil fill 49% of the world, health, wisdom, light and goodness&#160; fill 51% &#8212; and that tiny 2% difference compounded over time is what makes civilization and cultural.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/logo_npr_125.gif\" height=\"42\" width=\"125\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Logo Npr 125\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore audio details at &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=17597748\">Weighing the Good and Bad at Christmastime<\/a>&#8220;, NPR&#160; Morning Edition, Christmas Day 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Christmas morning you were probably not listening to the radio as you opened presents. I know we weren&#8217;t. But that is when Morning Edition broadcast a short interview with me on the subject of progress. I guess in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/the-two-percent-perspective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}