Our progress today is more of a process of disillusion. We are confronted, assaulted, by evidence of the enormity of what is taking place. We react in various ways. Sometimes we strive to deny what is going on. We distance our selves from awareness at the risk of numbing in-attentiveness. Sometimes we buckle under the weight. This can lead to reactions, passive or active, depression or anger. It can also offer us the only true solace available, an approach to clarity.