One of the developments surrounding my experience with the Larry King Live team at CNN that gave reason to believe progress was possible was what seemed an almost inexplicable drop in viewership for the program the more corrupt its leadership seemed to become.

While I do not know the reasons for this, it seemed to me to be a result of the simple fact that people pray and, even when they do not know why they feel inspired to take a particular action, people can simply know when they do or do not feel right intuitively about certain things.

I love considering the story of Jonah and the importance of his decision to disclose to his fellow sailors during a storm that he probably had something to do with it. Although their reaction in the story seemed merciless, it, of course, wasn’t that Jonah needed to be disposed with. It was only that Jonah needed to be dealt with and that the specificity of this process helped avert unnecessary suffering from a blunter tool that would have harmed those around him.

There are so many corollaries to this model; and I am reminded of modern-day examples, such as the senseless repetitiveness, over generations unwilling to deal with the problem, of all forms of abuse or what seems to be the occasional expression of frustration by those who feel disenfranchised by intentionally littering or emitting on a massive scale rather than expressing specific grievances where they are more likely to be heard and addressed.

I believe the reason progress almost always seems to require the expression of sacrificial love is this unspecificity, or, its resultant – the so-called tragedy of the commons.

While I have felt heard to a small degree with regard to my latter years at CNN even while my concerns have been reduced to broad strokes, I still do not feel really heard or acknowledged specifically.

Beyond this, especially given the world events through which both I and others have lived in recent years, I personally believe I may owe a lot to the women and men whose bravery, honesty, and sacrifice have helped enable me to live, to help problem-solve, and to have a voice with which to share ideas.

But even while I have felt muffled, I am able to take comfort in the fact that every person is connected to their own individual source of intuition, intelligence and wisdom, and a way can always be found to course-correct as a world.

Even so, given the hindrances that seem to be in place (largely, it seems to me, at the hands of media corporations) to prevent problem-solving, it still feels no wonder our planet is running a general temperature.