the head with your point, they won't enjoy it, but if you take your point and bury it in a hopefully funny story, maybe they will think of it. my point in this book is really that life can be normal. we've talked science and ethics and the realities of daily life. when you consider the span of your own life and your own family history, do you think as our species gets evermore knowledgeable and scientifically capable, do you think we are also becoming wiser? i hope so, but there is no evidence. if you look at the world today, you know better than i do that there is conflict in the middle east, a dictator in russia, all sorts of problems in the world. so we are not necessarily any better than we were but we have the potential to be better. we know what went wrong. we know what mistakes we have made. i think we can build a society.