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L2si: a blog on the Speculist website. From the "about" page:

L2si is an abbreviation for "Live to See it," which is our tagline at the Speculist, but it’s a lot more than just a tagline. L2si is our philosophy. It’s our affirmation that the world not only should be getting better, but that it is getting better -- that the future holds in store amazing promise, and that there is much that we can all hope to live to see.

So what do we mean when we say that the world is getting better? Well, by better we mean freer. Safer. Cleaner. More things to do. More things to be. Less stuff to die from, more stuff to live for.

This may strike some as a radical proposition, suggesting that we’re part of an evolutionary process. Are we saying that there’s some unstoppable wave of improvement that nobody really started and that no one has the power to stop? Or more modestly, have we concluded that the very human drive to be smarter, to be stronger, and to be better than we were, tends to win out? That in the end we, humanity, are better at solving problems than we are at anything else, including creating problems?

Well, in a word, yes. There’s a strong case to be made for the latter explanation, and we can’t entirely rule out the former one.

Near and dear to my heart, with at least one author being near to me geographically. I have added it to the Centennial Staters section because I am so tired of the Keystone Staters’ numerical superiority.

I found it on a link from Instapundit. Glenn links to a great post on the return of the Bald Eagle, and American's rightful place in the environmental movement. This blog lives to celebrate innovation, wealth creation, and real progress. Linked.

Posted by jk at July 1, 2007 8:52 PM