Jason Daniel
Sep 5, 2018 · 1 min read

I think it’s also helpful to keep in mind that news paints a very negative picture of the world. It can very easily skew your perspective into one where you start believe that everything about the world is terrible when that is far from the truth. Based on objective measurements (poverty, starvation, infant mortality, life expectancy, rates of violence, etc), there has never been a better time to live. That’s not to say everything is great. We still have lots of problems to solve, but those are problems our ancestors didn’t have the luxury of considering because they were focused on more practical things…like surviving.

One of the paradoxes of modern life (at least in the Western world, I don’t know how applicable this is to the East) is that our lives have become so comfortable, in a practical sense, that we a surplus of time and energy we can devote to pondering the myriad of ways our lives suck, we are oppressed, and the world is terrible. And the more comfortable our lives get, the more we (as individuals) fret over and complain about what we don’t have and how much everything sucks.

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