In his Takimag column, our jubilant doctor brings some Christmas cheer his loyal readers by presenting us with some recent positive experiences with the general public.

All is not lost, then, I thought, and civilization will survive us; the end is not nigh. Naturally, this mood of optimism cannot last long before it is replaced by a much darker mood more conducive to the kind of article that I and most journalists usually write. But the holiday season, as Google puts it, is upon us, and we need a break from gloom, however justified it might be.