Most people have probably never heard of Gavin McInnes, but I think his star is on the rise. He may not be the comedian we want, but he may very well be the comedian we need. In a world of safe-spaces, people who get offended at the drop of a hat, people who think that yelling at someone or looking at them for too long is rape, Gavin McInnes is out there challenging these nouveau-religious dogmas in the most direct, admittedly offensive, often hilarious, ways. But in yesterday's show he took care to point out that though he is "in the trenches shoveling shit" he is actually optimistic about the future:

Because we exist in the present and our sense of time is bounded by our lifespans we tend to lose sight of the larger trends. Technology progresses. Standard of living improves. Humanity as an organism continues to acquire more and higher quality information even if many within it (arguably everyone within it) appear ignorant or violent. We are marching toward the singularity even if at times it seems like we're moving backward. Steemit and Steem are just one manifestation of this progress.

All the awful things in this world galvanize us to create solutions which improve all our lives.

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