Generation Screwed: Deepening inequity not acceptable

IT seems a core human instinct — though not quite a core belief — that things can get better; we seem to always imagine that faraway reindeer have longer antlers.

This optimism is so ingrained, so much a part of our cultural formation that anyone who might even gently question the idea is dismissed as a cynic. 

Or, in an exercise of absolute political cynicism by former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, as a “naysayer”.