Life is Better Now
I’ve been saying for years that we live in better, and more enlightened times. If you study history as I have, the facts are inescapable. But many people who only know what they see on television fail tp understand that and despair for our future. This article in the New Republic explains why they’re wrong.
And I have to say, it’s refreshing to see this in a liberal magazine, because the left is so negative and gloomy on the whole. The pessimism, fueled by belief in conspiracies doesn’t help one’s outlook.
We really live in the best times in recorded history, despite all the things we hate. Just in my lifetime, I have seen a lot of positive change. When I was a little kid they still had segregation in the south. Presidents and other leaders were assassinated. Most of the poor nations on earth were run by dictators (a bigger percentage than today). Medical science was more backward. Opportunities to be independent and self employed were much scarcer.
Sure, there are lots of things to be unhappy about today. But on the whole, things are better. Which is one reason I have a problem with those who would muck things up by sending us back instead of forward.
Right on!,
I am a big fan of historical fiction and i am always wowed by how nutty things were just 80 years ago. I am currently reading about the whale boat Essex and the whaling life style of nantucket in the early 1800’s.
Those folks had it rough. And that was the most prosperous city in the enitre world at the time.
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