There are a lot of reasons in our contemporary times to be dismayed by what is happening; the dictators, the wars, the utter brutal disregard for lives as we see happening in Ukraine at the hands of Russia, the mass killing of Palestinians by a dictatorial Israeli regime, or even in the United States, a nation that once carried the torch of freedom and democracy, where one man and his decrepit party are threatening democracy and unilateral collaboration across the world - but