I'm afraid you're right.

On the other hand, it somewhat depends on how one defines *nothing*. Bit more that 20 years ago I reasoned that since I can't do much to affect the world history, all I can do is to focus on my own life, trying to make it better. Pretty soon I realized that in order to make my life better I also have to work with my own personality, seriously rebuiling emotional and cognitive patterns I had adopted in my earlier life. It's been a long ride since that, but I definitely feel that at least something has changed in the small sphere of my personal life. - Now, one could easily reason that compared to the big events of world history one single personal life equals to *nothing*. Sure thing, but deep down every rock star, poet, military officer, business tycoon and president are made of the same flesh than all the rest of us. They have their emotional and cognitive patterns too, and they make their decisions based on those same patterns. Their decisions might affect millions of people, but the fundamental layer is still the same - either you go with the patterns you already have, or then you seek inner growth. So, all those political processes and agendas are far too complicated for me. I'm just a slightly escapistic hippie living in my own small alternative reality =)

But, sure, thinking of world history and future it is rather easy to be pessimistic. To me it looks like that as a mankind we have only two options; either we manage to change our ways, or then we face a global crisis of some sort. Like Titanic - their choices were either to change the route to avoid collision with an iceberg, or then to face the unavoidable consequences of failing to react.