The world is ever-changing. Roger Kimball calls it a "quick changing kaleidoscope" and goes on to say:
It seems to be a human quirk — maybe it is part of the human instinct for survival — to suppose that the world tomorrow will, in most essentials, resemble the world today. No doubt in many cases, the supposition is justified. But a friend sent me this little animated dramatization about the fate of the British (and incidentally, the French and Spanish) Empire over the last couple centuries. It is, as he said, “utterly fascinating (and depressing).” What it depicts is, first, a journey or moral and material progress through the first couple decades of the twentieth century. It then shows the astonishing swift process of political disintegration that marks what we might call the retribalization of the world.
Me: By all means watch the little animated dramatization. After that helpful prodding of our historical memory, we could well meditate on how much the world could change in the next few years. Which should drive us to prayer.