2015. What kind of year will you be? The general consensus among commentators seems to be that 2014 was kind of awful (war, disaster, tragedy, raging inequality, and the forward advance of some increasingly ugly politics, all intertwined). Having been more plugged in to current affairs and politics than ever before, it has been hard not to feel affected (infected?) by that gloom in some way. In quite a profound way, truth be told. Growing up, I always used to think that the w