3 Reasons You Are Wrong About ‘The Good Old Days’
And why NOW is the best time to be alive
“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.” -Franklin Pierce Adams
Looking back at history, ask yourself what era you would rather live in more than today.
You may be able to find an 80-year period when you could have avoided a major war. You might identify a time when there was relative peace, economic expansion, growth in civil rights, and optimism about the future.
But was that time really as rosy as you think it was?
The truth is that people today on average are faring much better than they were at any point in history.
This may not sound right. It may not feel right. But it is right.
The world has seen dramatic improvements over the last couple centuries, including better access to healthcare, less malnutrition, less violence, less war, less pollution, more education equality, more human rights, more democracy, and more freedom.
These are just a few tidbits about how much better life has gotten around the world in the last 200 years:
- Life expectancy has more than doubled in the last 150 years to 71…
